ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
INVERCARGILL CLERK SHOOTS HIMSELF. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, this day. John R. Roxburgh, aged twenty-six, a clerk, single, employed by Broad, Small and Co., hardwa.re merchant's, attempted suicide on Saturday evening by shooting. He fired four shots from a toy revolver at his foreheads two pellets glancing off and one becoming embedded.
It is expected he will recover. Roxburgh was in ill-health. He was leaving the firm's employ, and was to have received a presentation the same even-
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 73, 26 March 1906, Page 5
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