BOY'S STRANGE SUICIDE.
(United Vrrx* Association—Convright."* MELBOURNE, October 7.
Eric Norman Edwards, the twelve-year-old son of a Warnamhool business man, suicided by hanging himself to a tree in Albert Park. Warnambool. Edwards and another boy were going to school when the other boy noticed a clothes line tinder voting Edwards' ooat. Edwards explained that he.had found it. Shortly after he left his co*«». panion, saying he had forgotten to cp]\ at a butcher's shop. He then went to the park. It is stated that Edward's' father had spoken to him the same morning about truancy, and the boy declared that he was flogged daily. but the school evidence showed that he had not been punished chiriner the past three months. Prior to the middle of .September ho had been bright and well-behav-ed.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 19910, 8 October 1913, Page 5
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132BOY'S STRANGE SUICIDE. Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 19910, 8 October 1913, Page 5
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