WORRY OVER CATS.
OLD SPINSTER’S DEATH. GAS TUBE IN MOUTH. VERDICT OF SUICIDE RETURNED. [By Telegraph. —Press Association] AUCKLAND, Aug. 25. Worry over having to leave the old building which had long been her home, nlid thus to lose the eompuninslup of a number of cats she had gathered about her as pets, is considered by a social worker to be the reason why Agnes Inkster, spinster, aged 70, committed suicide yesterday. She was found dead in the house with the gas tube in her mouth.
A social worker , said early in tho month Miss Inkster received notico that the house was to be demolished. She had a large number of cats as pets and her only companions, and she was greatly worried what would become of them. She was an old-age pensioner and a native of the Shetland Islands, and was not known to have had any relatives in New Zealand. A verdict of suicide by gas poisoning was returned by Mr. F. K. Hunt, coroner.
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Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20095, 25 August 1937, Page 3
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