SUICIDE IN PRISON
I j A DISHONOURABLE DEATH. | | FOLLOWS A DISCREDITABLE LIFE. I I VERDICT AT TIIE INQUEST. i ! United Press Assn.—‘ ro ' ,f &* LONDON, April 5. At the inquest on Alexander Harris the jury returned a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind. The police tendered evidence that Harris was a Londoner and an, oftconvicted criminal and confidence man. The coroner commented that it was a discreditable life, followed by a dishonourable death. A message on April 3 stated that Alexander Valentine Harris, aged 49, who boarded the Otranto at Sydney and who was arrested at Tilbury on a charge of an irregularity In his passport, hanged himself with a pyjama cord in a cell of the Brixton prison.
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Waikato Times, Volume 117, Issue 19546, 8 April 1935, Page 3
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120SUICIDE IN PRISON Waikato Times, Volume 117, Issue 19546, 8 April 1935, Page 3
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