[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] A YOUNG MAN'S SUICIDE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 83, 9 April 1910, Page 9

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] A YOUNG MAN'S SUICIDE.

. DUNEDIN, Bth April. An inquest on the body of James Carter, aged nineteen years, who shot himself at Sawyer's Bay on Tuesday night, was held to-day. * The evidence 'showed that deceased had been boarding some months ago with a woman named Mrs. Ireland. He visited her honse on the day of his death, and while she was out milking cows ho shot himself with a pea-nfto. In her evidence Mrs. Ireland said deceased always went to h«r house as an ordinary visitor. She did not, until about three weeks ago, know that there was scandal about deceased coining to her house. Deceased told her his mother had kicked him out of his home. Mr Plnttft read the following note found in deceased's pocket, addrossed to Mrs. Ireland :—: — You have been very funny this last two days, and I can stand it no longer. You have treated me like a dog, so I am better dead. — Yours no longer, JAMES CARTER. Witness said, there were no grounds whatever for deceased writing that note. The only explanation witness could make of the memo, found on deceased was that she had told him not to come to her house again, as his mother objected. Other evidence was to the effect that Mrs. Ireland was a respectable, hardworking woman who supported her five children solely by her exertions. A verdict was returned that deceased died from a bullet wound in the right temple, self-inflicted by means of a pearifle.