SUICIDE AT SOUTH DUNEDIN
Mr C. C. Graham, district coroner, held an inquest at the Dunedin Hospital this morning touching the death of Nicholas Charles Edwards, 67 years of age, a storeman at the gasworks, who was admitted to the Hospital yesterday forenoon suffering from a self-inflicted wound in his throat, and who died a few hours later. Deceased resided with his wife, and family at 19 Atkinson street, South Dunedin. Dr Newlands. who had attended the deceased for heart disease for the past five or six years, said he was summoned to the house yesterday morning. On going out a little after 10 o'clock he found deceased with his throat cut. The wound was long, but not deep, none of the vital structures having been severed. There had been considerable veinous hemorrhage. The patient was removed to the Hospital, where he grew gradually weaker, and died at 1.30 p.m. Deceased had suffered severely for years, and especially during the last three months, and had expressed a wish for death. It was probably in one of the paroxysms of asthma that deceased in desperation had cut his throat. No doubt deceased's mind had been unhinged for the moment. He had asked witness to give him something to finish his life. The wound had been inflicted with a razor.
Miss Edwards, a, daughter of the deceased, said that her father had suffered for a long time, and had frequently expressed a wish for death. She described his condition yesterday morning, and the discovery of the deceased with his throat cut.
Evidence was also given by William Higginson, who gave assistance at deceased's house yesterday morning, and who stated that deceased appeared to be quite collected and in possession of all his senses, and by Constable Howard.
The Coroner said there was no doubt that death was due to heart failure and exhaustion, the results of the wounds on his throat, self-inflicted while temporarily insane. -Evening Star, 2/4/1913.
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