THREAT CARRIED OUT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 280, 25 November 1937, Page 11

THREAT CARRIED OUT.

BANK OFFICER'S SUICIDE.

FINANCIAL WORRIES

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

INVERCARGILL, Wednesday. A verdict of suicide by shooting with a revolver was given by the coroner, Mr. W. H. Freeman. S.M.. at the inquest this afternoon into the death of George Henry Sinclair, a bank officer, who was found dead on the premises of the Bank of Australasia on the morning of October 2fi.

Evidence in tho form of a sworn statement was given by Frederick Merven Blank, hotel porter, at present unemployed, who said he was in Sinclair's company on Labour Day. They consumed a quantity of liquor at Bluff and in Invercargill. When leaving Sinclair th© last words witness said to him were, "I will see you to-morrow, Harry." Sinclair replied, "I don't think you will, as I am going to bump myself off." That was the only thing he said Which would indicated he inlended to take his life.

Sergeant John O'Shea said that Sinclair was supposed to be a single man, but correspondence found among hi» effects indicated that he 'was married, and subsequent inquiries proved this to be correct. A marriage certificate showed that Sinclair was married at Dunedin on July 22, 1937. ' Other correspondence found in a pocket of his coat indicated that he was worried about his financial position, and among this correspondence witness found notice of his resignation from the bank's service. This notice was headed "Invercargill," and was not dated. It was addressed to the manager of the bank and signed "G. H. Sinclair."