Suicide.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 11973, 17 September 1906, Page 5

Suicide.

WELLINGTON, September 16.

An inquest was held on Saturday afternoou on the body of a man found at Wadestown on Friday morning. There in considerable doubt regarding the deceased's identity. Arthur Penny, manager of the Willowbank boardinghouse, believes the body to be that of John Mailing, last seen alive on May 19th. Henry Starr, a seaman, is of opinion that the deceased is Fred Brown, who disappeared from the Otago Buffet, Wellington, about a month ago. A verdict was returned that the deceased; name unknown, committed suicide by- cutting his throat with a razor. The deceased's body bears a tattoo mark of an anchor, heart and cross on the left arm, and a thistle on the right arm, also an anchor on the back of the left hand.