INQUEST AT TIMARU
From Our Own Reporter TIMARU, July 19. Severe injuries to the stomach and liver caused by a gunshot wound self-inflicted when he was mentally depressed, was the verdict returned to-day by the Coroner (Mr M. M. Enting) at the inquest into the death of George Henry Eric Johnson. A married man, aged 45, a farmer of Bluecliffs road. St. Andrews. Johnson died on June 30. Dr. J. L. Mclver, of Timaru, who examined the body, said that Johnson had consulted him on June 26 when he was suffering from obsessional neurosis.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25551, 20 July 1948, Page 3
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