FOUND HANGED.
YOUNG MARRIED MAN. DISCOVERY AT OJiEHUNGA* HALF OF FACE BLOWN AWAY. Frederick Dean, aged 32, was formd dead, hanging from a rafter of a shetf on his father's property at the corner of Mount Smart Road, and Cameron Street, Onehunga, about 8 o'clock this morning. Half his face was blown away. / The discovery was made by his sister, Miss Dean, who resides with her father. The dead man had been employed a-fc his father's lime kiln, and used to drive a truck with shell from the beach up to the kiln. He was in the habit of calling at the house for a cup of tea each morning, and his sister, finding that he had not arrived, went to call him. Dr. Howard Thomas and Dr. IX X. W. Murray, of Auckland, were summoned. They stated that deceased, after using the gun, had apparently stood on a truck, which he had parked in the shed, and hanged himself by jumping from it. Mr. Dean had been married two or three years, but had no children.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 167, 17 July 1931, Page 7
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