A DECAPITATED CORPSE.

Northern Advocate, 7 December 1916, Page 1

A DECAPITATED CORPSE.

NO HALF MEASURES

SUICIDE WITH GELIGNITE,

The inquest has concluded at Pukekohe concerning the death of the man whose headless remains were discovered at Mercer last week. Evidence was given by Frank Lukaschewski that articles of cloth'ng, also a watch and chain, shown him by the police, had belonged to his brother Rudolph, whom he had not seen for the past six weeks. Witness lived with his brother, and the latter's four children, on a farm at Aifriston, near Papakura. Before :;:o ing away his brother had threatened to blow himself up with gelignite. \\n UR'fired plug of gelignite found on the body was identified by witness as similar to those stored at the farm. On the evidence of Frank Lukaschewski, toge her with conclusions drawn from an inspection of the scene of the fatality, the police formulated a theory that deceased bad placed a plug of gelignite in his mouth, and had lighted the fuse. The Coroner accepted this theory, and returned a verdict that the remains were those of Rudolph Lukaschewski, who had committed suicide by blowing himself up with goligritc while evidently of unsound mind, beins worried by the fact that four ■iiildrcn were dependent on him.