BOY, 13, TAKES OWN LIFE IN DEPRESSION (Per Press Association!. INVERCARGILL, Last Night. The death occurred in tragic circumstances to-day of a boy, George Gough, aged 13 years. At 5 pin. the mother hoard a shot in front of the house. Going to investigate she found the boy in the front bedroom dead with a shotgun beside him. The case is doubly tragic from the fact that three month ago the boy found his baby brother lying dead in the perambulator apparently from suffocation. He had been depressed since. The police, after investigation, stated that appearances pointed to Hie boy having shot himself.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 6455, 12 November 1927, Page 9
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