SUICIDE BY POISON.
DEATH OF ACCOUNTANT. SHORTAGE IN FIRM’S CASH. (By Telegraph. —Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. “He was surprised to see me and after showing me where the boohs were he left the office. When next I saw him ihe was dead. In the meantime I had found a shortage of £450 in the firm’s cash, of which he had been in charge.” These) were the words uttered by IV. E. Best, auditor, who gave evidence at the adjourned inquest on James Adair Hall, accountant for the Ilawarden branch of the Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Association, who was found dead last Wednesday. The Coroner, Mr Lawry, S.M., returned a verdict of suicide by r poisoning.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 7 December 1926, Page 5
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