WIDOW’S SUICIDE
DEATH FROM GAS FUMES [Per Prest Association.] HAMILTON, Dec. 27. Yesterday morning, while her daughter was cleaning another part of the house, a widow, Gertrude Joan Major, aged 42, with five children, turned on the gas, pinned the tube to a pillow on the kitchen table, and then lay on the table with her head beneath an eiderdown. She was found dead by her daughter half an hour later. At the inquest to-day it was shown that she had been in ill-health for four years. Tho verdict was one of suicide while temporarily insane.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 460, 29 December 1930, Page 7
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96WIDOW’S SUICIDE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 460, 29 December 1930, Page 7
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