ENGINEER'S SUICIDE.
TEMPORARILY UNHINGED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Monday. The body of John Herbert Lewis, engineer to "the Clutha County Council, was found at Puerua on Friday, with « discharged revolver lying beside it- Deceased was due to fro to Queenstowtt in connection with the Kawarau dam proceedin.Ers."but instead he took a car out to a lonely r-pot on t'.ie Puerwa River, where his body was found. Deceased is said to have b?en financially embarrassed, and it is thought tlrs affected 'his mind. At the inquest a verdict was returned that death was due to a wound self-inflicted while deceased's mind was temporarily unhinged.
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Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 18, 22 January 1924, Page 6
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