A YOUTH'S SUICIDE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, Issue LVII, 9 April 1910, Page 5

A YOUTH'S SUICIDE.

"I AM BETEER DEAD."

EPBEBB ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN, April 8. An inquest on the body of James Carter, aged nineteen years, who shot himself at Sawyer's Bay on Tuesday night, was held to-day. The evidence showed that the deceased had been boarding some months ago with a woman named Mrs Ireland. He visited her house on the day of his death, and while she was out milking the cows he shot himself.

In the course of her, evidence Mrs Ireland said deceased always came as an. ordinary visitor. She did not, until about three weeks ago, know that there was a scandal about deceased coming to her house. Deceased told her his mother had "kicked him. out" of his home. Mr Platts read ( the following note found in deceased's pocket. and addressed to Mrs Ireland :— "You have been very funny this last two days, and I can stand it no longer. You have treated me like a dog, so I am better dead. Yours no longer. — Jas. Carter." Witness said there were no grounds whatever for deceased writing that note. The only explanation witness could make of the memo, found on deceased was that she had told him not to come to her house again, as his mother objected. Other evidence was given, to the effect that Mrs Ireland was a respectable, hard-working woman, who supported her five children solely by her own exertions. A verdict was returned that deceased 'died from a bullet wound in the right [temple, inflicted by means of a pearifle.