DEATH OF MINER
111-health and Suicide By Telegraph—Press Association. Thames, Alay 3. An inquest was held to-day concerning the death of William James Alarjurey, aged 44, a miner, who was found at his residence at Tararu Creek yesterday with gunshot wounds in the forehead. ’ . The deceased’s widow gave evidence that he had been suffering from a miner’s complaint, and had been very ill lately. Yesterday he rested after killing a pig, and then walked into the yard, saying, “Good-bye, Mum.” She heard a shot and found her husband with a sawn-off shotgun underneath him. He had attempted suicide in February, but the shot had missed. A verdict was given of suicide while in a depressed mental state due to ill health.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 186, 4 May 1933, Page 11
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121DEATH OF MINER Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 186, 4 May 1933, Page 11
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