BOY'S SUICIDE
PA. NELSON, This Day. A boy of 16 years of age, John Shelton Russell, who was found on the college football ground with a .22 rifle wound in his head yesterday morning, died in hospital later. At an inquest the Coroner found that the boy died fiibrn a self-inflicted gunshot wound while in a state of mental abnormality. • The boy had not returned to his home after church on Sunday evening. .The weapon had been taken from the college armoury, to which entrance was gained through a window.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 5, 6 July 1943, Page 3
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90BOY'S SUICIDE Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 5, 6 July 1943, Page 3
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