FOUND DEAD IN GULLY.
YOUNG BREAD SALESMAN. bullet heab hob heart. MOTOR VAN ON ROAD. (By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, this day.
Noticing a bread van standing alongside a hedge in Tamahere Road last night and again this morning, a motor driver notified the police, who discovered that its owner was Hector Cole, about 35 years of age, bread salesman, a married man with one child. He left home yesterday afternoon in his usual spirits, and took a pea-rifle with which lus wife understood he was going to shoot rabbits.
This morning the police found his body lying at the foot of a steep gully, with an empty bottle, which had contained a white fluid, on one side, and the pea-rifle on the other. There was a bullet wound above his heart, and impressions made by the muzzle were clearly defined on his waistcoat.
The body was brought to Hamilton for the inquest.
Cole bought his house and bread round a month ago, and his friends understood that he was doing well.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 76, 30 March 1928, Page 7
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