OLD MAN'S SUICIDE.
| FFARED LOSS OF TENSION. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) TE AROHA. this day. At the inquest into the death of Alfred Henry Eustace, who was found in a whare at Waihou, a verdict of suicide was returned. The police stated that Eustace had been mentally perturbed because of the probability of his pension being stopped cn account of his being engaged in carting milk. Despite advice by friends. Eustace continued to worry, and when he did not present himself for his usual occupation his whare was searched. Eustace was lying on the floor, and it appeared that he had hit himself on the back of his skull with a tomahawk and iacerated his scalp. He then got a bucket of water and plunged his head in it and drowned. J
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 214, 10 September 1928, Page 3
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