FARMER FOUND SHOT.
SUFFERED FROM HEAD PAINS EVIDENCE AT INQUEST. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) HUNTLY, Monday. At an inquest which was held to.-day before Mr. F. Harris, coroner, on the body of Alexander Park,?aged Ao, who was found shot through the heart' at Tehoe yesterday afternoon, it was stated that deceased was a married man with one daughter, aged nine. He was employed as a sharemilker on Mr. W. D. Thompson's farm at Tehoe. Park borrowed a gun from Mr. Thompson on the pretext that he wanted to shoot some cats who \v«re after his chickens. Mrs.'Ella Ruth Park, wife of deceased, said her husband had suffered from an abscess in the head, and he had been in Auckland Hospital in November last. He complained recently of pains in the head, but on the day of his death he appeared in his usual state of health. They were comfortably off and happily married. He had never spoken of takfcig his life. The coroner's verdict was that deceased committed suicide while temporarily of unsound mind.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 46, 24 February 1931, Page 9
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