FINANCIAL WORRY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 226, 22 September 1915, Page 9

FINANCIAL WORRY.

LEADS TO SUICIDE. An inquest arising out of the death lof Giorjje branch manager jin Auckland o! the Richardson Shipping I Company. body wan found on j Monday afterucn>n lying on a projection 'of t cliff near Fort Cautlev. wu con I ducted yesterday afternoon by the | coroner, Sir E. f. Cutten. S.M. I Dr ('. H. Wheeler, of Devonport. said jthat when he went witti Serpt. Baekiwlle 'to tile soono of the tragedy he found ( Jfoi'iKtd lying on the rock* with a bullet iwound in h;> right temple. He appearej ! j tcj have fallen heavily, v hU fact , v»is ' j-onsidenbly cut and bruiaed. Beside : the body wae ditrnvtred a »ixchambered 'revolver, and one cartridge v> aj found Ito have been duelwrged. Dr Wheeler uas oi the opiiuoJl that the wound had i been self-inflicted. An employee of the Pevonport I Boro-.izh < ounoil stated that bej«een ton and eleven o'clock on Monday morn i ing he saw deceased sitting on the ste.>» 'of th* kio-k at (. heltenhanf H«-a.;h After ab<sa: a quarter of an hour he «fni in the direction of the rocks. '.vhere lils body was »übeer|uentiy foun.i. A bro-'her in law of deceased namei ! K.->hert HorelfV produced a letter whi-h deceased had written on Monda; to hu wiiv, itatin'g that dirHcultie* an 1 faiimg had hern the fii'f ol hu taking in., life The difficulties referred to in Che tett-T ivrr, thought t>« witn-iM to be in connection with monr'.irc matters n .t pertaining to his busman. li..- coroner form 1 tut .!c-.-aeM committed suicide while temporarily in a state of unauunil mind due to financial worry. Mr Loregrore woji an exceedingly popular business mm in Auckland, an! the intimation "f hi-i death came a, a s!-....-k ij hi.< :.->:,;<• nrele of acquaintance iv shipping circles.