The Archive · 1937

Nervous Breakdown

In answer toa question by the' coroner, Miss Barnes "said that on three of the floors the same as this office on the frst /focr. She understood that Sergt. Hibberd was suffering from a nervous fpreakdown, and did not think he was likely to commit sulelde. She had Ino instructions to take special pre-Jcautions to see he did not do so.

Miss M. KK. Knudsen, the sister in Jcharge of the time of the suicide, also gave evidence, and Sergt, D.

Robb, recalled, said that he and Sergt. [Hibberd were very. close friends, and he had asked the deceased to confide his troubles, Sergt, Hibberd was very worried, but witness did not know what the trouble was. He had

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