ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXI, Issue XXXI, 20 May 1920, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

FARM LABORER'S DEATH,

(BY TELEGRAPH PRTCRS ASSOCIATION.)

DTJNEDIN May 19. Anthony Patterson, single, 25 years of age, a farm laborer, was found dead m his bedroom at the Occidental Hotel this morning. There was a wound in the centre of his forehead, and a .22 Stevens rifle, with a discharged cartridge in the chamber, was lying on the floor. The body was partly on the bed, and its position seemed to indicate that the deceased shot himself while sitting on the bed. On the dressing table was a box of .22 cartridges. He was last seen alive yesterday about 1.45 p.m., when he went to his room. The deceased is reported to have left a letter in his room stating that lie intended to commit suicide and saying good-bye to a girl.