MINER’S SUICIDE.
NO WORK OR MONEY. (By Trleprapli.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday. A verdict of suicide by gas poisoning was returned by the Coroner at an inquest into the death of Andrew Jock, a West Coast miner, who was found dead in a sited at the rear of a house where he boarded in Christchurch.
The evidence showed that Jock had been out of work and was short of money. He was in arrears with his beard* and the landlady had told him lie must pay at least a part of Hie money or leave.
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Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18359, 19 June 1931, Page 7
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94MINER’S SUICIDE. Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18359, 19 June 1931, Page 7
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