TRAGIC DEATH OF BOY
MOTHER FINDS HIM SHOT DEPRESSED BY DEATH OF BABY BROTHER [Per United Press Association.] INVERCARGILL, November 11. The death occurred in tragic circumstances to-day, at 5 p.m.,* of a boy named George Gough, 33 years of age. The mother heard a shot at the front of (he house, and on going to investigate found the boy in the front bedroom dead, with a shotgun beside him. Tho case is rendered doubly tragic by the fact that (lire© months ago ihe hoy found his baby brother lying dead in a perambulator, apparently from suffocation. The lad had been depressed since.
The police, after investigation, stated that the appearance pointed to (be boy having shot himself.
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Evening Star, Issue 19712, 12 November 1927, Page 11
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118TRAGIC DEATH OF BOY Evening Star, Issue 19712, 12 November 1927, Page 11
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