SUPPOSED SUICIDE.
[FSB VBBBB ASSOCIATION.] Invercargill, May 18. The body of a farmer named John i)ay, of Waitaka, was found in an outhouse at the Shamrock Hotel this r crning under circumstances suggesting suicide. Deceased came to town on Thursday evening and engaged a room at the Shamrock and slept there that night, and next day was apparently about town. He had a meal at the hotel and in the evening was in the snukirg room. He seemed to be suffering from neivous and depressing trouble and told several people in the house that he had met with great trouble. On Saturday morning he was seen to enter the outhouse, which was not entered by anybody during the day, and early this morning Mr McAuliffe discovered the body. There was a wound in tine throat made by a pocketknife.
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Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 270, 20 May 1907, Page 4
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