INQUEST.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9862, 11 March 1896, Page 6

INQUEST.

(MUESB ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) MASTERTON, March 10.

The inquest on the remains of the young man found dead near Masterton was opened this afternoon. Medical evidence showed that the'immediate cause of death was a bullet fired into the brain. The wound in the breast might not have been sufficient to cause death. Other evidence was adduced' to show that the young fellow had come to Masterton on Saturday, and stayed at a boarding-house. He told one of the boarders that he had come from Cnristchurch, .where he had been working at Booth's mill. A telegram was put in from Inspector Broham, mowing that a young man answering the description, named George Peacock, who had been working for Booth, left Christchurch last Tuesday for the Wellington district. A. second telegram waa received from Inspector Pender, of Wellington, stating that a young woman named Miss Page had reported that the description of the deceased answered to that of her brother, George Page, who also left Canterbury sometime ago. As the initials of both men correspond With the letters on the handkerchief of the deceased the inquest was adjourned till Thursday to allow of the presence of Mr Peaoock, of Christchuroa. The statement made regarding Booth's mill, however, points to the conclusion that the young man is Peacock and not Page.