SUICIDE AT TIMARU.
Body Was Not Immediately Cut Down. (Special to the “ Star.’*) TIMARU, July 1An inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of Robert Henrv Morgan, who was found hanging at ! Gilchrist's, butcher's shop by an em--1 plovee named Norman Stanley Paisley t at 7 a.m. to-day war conducted before
the Coroner, Mr A. L. Gee. The verdict was that death had been caused by deceased hanging himself whilst in a fit of depression. The Coroner added a rider that it was to be regretted that Paisley had not immediately cut the body down, as the time was so short between deceased’s leaving home and the finding of the body that there was a possibilit}' of some spark of life still remaining when Paisley found the body.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 494, 1 July 1932, Page 1
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