VERDICT OF SUICIDE.
♦ -.rasas association tzlzoiuj:.. WHANGAREI, July 8. By placing a detonator under hi? stomach and lighting the fuse, Edmund Hayes, aged forty-sis. committed suicide at Puwera on Saturday evening. Deceased arrived in New Zealand from England in April last, with his son, aged fourteen, intending to bring out his wife and three other children later. He was engaged in farming work for Mr J. E. Lord at the time of the tragedy. He was observed to enter some scrub by his son. who heard the explosion, and made the gruesome discovery. • At the inquest yesterday, a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19666, 9 July 1929, Page 7
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