SHORTAGE IN CASH.
THEN SUICIDE. CHRISTCH UR CH, To-Day. “He was surprised to see me and after showing me where the books'wore he left the office. When next I saw him he was dead. In the meantime I had found a shortage of £450 in. the firm ’s cash, of which, lie had been in charge.’’ Those were the words of AV. E. Best, auditor, who gave evidence at the adjourned inquest on the body of James Adair Hal], accountant for tire Hawarden brunch of the Farmers’ Co-Opera-tive Association, found dead last Wednesday. C-qroncr Lawry returned a verdict of suicide by poisoning.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXII, Issue 222, 8 December 1926, Page 8
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102SHORTAGE IN CASH. Waipukurau Press, Volume XXII, Issue 222, 8 December 1926, Page 8
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