BOY’S RASH ACT.
SHOT HIMSELF WITH REVOLVER BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—CO^YRIGHI. Received 9.5 a.m. to-day. SYDNEY, April 29. A 13-year-old boy named Thomas Sedgmen and a companion ran away from homo, 'intending a country advent lire. They reached- Blackheath, and spent a cold night in the hush without food. A policeman found them next morning, supplied them with breakfast and sent them home by train. When they arrived home Sedgmen’s mother asked where he had been. The boy, without replying, went to- liis bedroom and a few minutes later a revolver shot was heard. The boy' was 'discovered dead shot- through the head. ■He left a note for his mother, saying he was .sorry for what he was going; to do, and asking her to say good-bye to the who I ©' family.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 29 April 1926, Page 7
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131BOY’S RASH ACT. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 29 April 1926, Page 7
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