TRAGIC STORY.
YOUTH TAKES HIS LIFE. PENDING COURT CASE. (Hy Telegraph.—Press Association.) HAWKRA, this day. The tragic story of a youth, aged IS, who took his life rather than appear in Court to answer a charge of being found on licensed premises after hours, was revealed at Kapongn this # niorning at the inquest concerning the death of Kenneth Victor Harding. He was found in a whare on Sunday iiijjht with severe head Wounds and a shotgun clasped between his knees. The summons to appear in Court to answer a charge was served on Saturday. The coroner's verdict was that death was due to suicide while mentally depressed owing to a pending Court case.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 198, 22 August 1935, Page 8
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113TRAGIC STORY. Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 198, 22 August 1935, Page 8
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