FOUND SHOT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 206, 30 August 1940, Page 3

FOUND SHOT.

SECOND ECHELON SOLDIER.

The finding of a note intimating suicide led to the discovery of the body of Edmund Stanley Hartneady, soldier and motor driver, being fount! under the house in Second Avenue, Kingsland, yesterday afternoon. He was a single man, aged 38, and a member of the Third Echelon. Deceased came home on Saturday last on week-end leave, but did not return to Papakura camp on Sunday night. He appeared in good spirits when his father left him at 1.40 p.m. yesterday, but about 3.30 p.m. the father found a note in deceased's handwriting in which he intimated suicide. The body was later found under the house with a gunshot wound under the chin and at the top of the head where the ehot had emerged.

At an inquest opened by the coroner, Mr. T. K. Hunt, this morning, Roy Moore Hartneady, motor driver and brother of deceased, said he last saw the latter on Sunday, when he appeared quite happy about leaving New Zealand to go overseas. For some years he had possessed a double-barrelled shotgun which he kept at the house, but at no time had witness heard him express any intention of taking his life. The inquest was then adjourned.