THE PUKEKAWA TRAGEDY.
A BOY'S DEATH. CORONER'S FINDING. The second adjourned sitting of the Coronial inquiry into the circumstances connected with the Pukekawa-Tuakau tragedj-, concerning the death of Norman Walter Wright, who was found dead with a part of his head blown off, was conducted at the Pukekohe Magistrate's Court on Wednesday by the District Coroner. Mr. C. Roadley. The Coroner returned a . eidict that the deceased took hi 6 life whilst temporarily insane, no blame being attachable to the parents of the deceased. He remarked that the evidence went to show that the father had provided every comfort possible for the (boy, and the message written on the bag was evidently done in a sheer fit of desperation, and whilst deceased was not for his actions..
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 52, 1 March 1919, Page 6
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