EVIDENCE AT INQUEST.
SUICIDE BY POISONING. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Dec. ,9. The inquest concerning the death of William Henry Ashton, aged 32, who was found dead in the Domain yesterday, was held to-day. Dr E. N. Drier said that lie had found a small bottle, smelling strongly of poison, beside the body. Dr D. N. W. Murray, who made the post-mortem examination, said he was of opinion that death was due to shock, following the taking of poison. David Nelson McGregor, who boarded with deceased at 10, Scotia Place, said that when he add witness left for work at 8 o’clock deceased appeared quite normal. Later witness received a telephone message stating that something had happened. He found a note on his bed from deceased, saying that ho was about to commit suicide. Deceased had served in the Great War, and was in receipt of a pension. He had a shrapnel wound in the lung, and worried him considerably.
The coroner returned a verdict of suicide by poisoning.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 11, 10 December 1926, Page 8
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169EVIDENCE AT INQUEST. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 11, 10 December 1926, Page 8
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