STOREKEEPER'S SUICIDE.
TOOK PRUSSIC ACID. (By Telegraph. Press Association.) WAIHI. Wednesday. An inquest was held this afternoon before 'the District Coroner (Mr Wallnutt) touching the death of Harry Graham Jackson, who was found dead at his residence at Bowentown on Monday morning. Senior Sergeant O'Grady represented the police. Evidence was given by Robert Brown, locomotive driver, as to finding the body, and by Constable Whiting, who produced two letters written by the deceased, indicating that he intended to commit suicide on account of the worry about pending Court proceedings. Dr T. G. Short, who made a post mortem, said he found a large quantity of prussic acid in the stomach. The Coroner returned a verdict to the effect that death was due to prussic acid noisoning. self-administered, whilst suffering from severe mental depression.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1420, 25 October 1923, Page 5
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133STOREKEEPER'S SUICIDE. Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1420, 25 October 1923, Page 5
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