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Franklin Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 100, 28 August 1933, Page 5

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| SUICIDE SUSPECTED. | TRAGEDY AT ONEWIIERO. Using several plugs of-gelignite, a Yugoslav, Ivan Sokolic, aged 44, who has been engaged on relief work at Onewbero for the last nine months, committed suicide at the rear of his bach at Onewbero about 6.45 this morning. j He has been Jiving in New Zealand j for the iast nine years, and his wife | and three daughters reside in Yugoslavia. He left three letters; one to Constable C. Robb, of Tuakau, intimating that he intended to commit suicide: one addressed to Hie chief postmaster at Auckland, and the third written to his wife. Each was written in his native language. it is presumed that he used three or four plugs of gelignite, and placing them in bis hands across his chest, lay down before firing them. The body was cut in two and portions were found 100 yards away. His two fellow workmen were about to sit down to breakfast when Sokolic walked oul of the rear door of the j house which is situated a few hundred j yards on the Tuakau side of the One- i whero township. The men heard an | explosion and on going out saw a j great deal of smoke. Closer investi- j gation revealed that the Yugoslav had j taken his life. j An inquest is to he held to-morrow, i