SUICIDE OF A BANKER.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 236, 10 April 1907, Page 2

SUICIDE OF A BANKER.

[PEE PEEBS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, April 9. Henry Curnow, manager of tho Bank of New Zealand at Whangarei, committed suicide by shooting himself at Ponsbnby to-day. He arrived from Whangarei this morning accompanied by his wife, and went to stay at the residence of his wife's sister, Mrs Baker, at Ponsonby. He came to town shortly after his arrival at Mrs Baker's house, this morning, and was absent two hours. He returned at about noon, and as he approached his wife, who was standing on Baker's verandah, he drew a revolver and fired a bullet into his brain and fell dead. He had been. in bad health for some time, but beyond that no reason is know for the rash act. Curnow was 40 years of age, and leaves a widow and one child. Auckland, April 10. At tho inquest on Curnow, tho evidence was to the effect that deceased had been worried about his work. He was on his way to the head office of the Bank of New Zealand at Wellington, and had no domestic trouble. The jury returned a verdict of suicide while of unsound mintT.