MENTALLY DEPRESSED
MAN TAKES HIS LIFE. (Per Press Association. —Copyright.) HAMILTON, This Day. John Sinclair, aged 41, proprietor of a boardinghouse at Huntly, was found shot in a. bedroom yesterday. Deceased, who was married with three children, was a returned soldier and suffered from the effects of being gassed. His wife It card a noise and hurried) to flic bedroom and found deceased lying on the floor, a shotgun near the body. At the inquest, a verdict, that deceased died from a gunshot wound selfinflicted while in a state of mental depression—probably aggravated by the result of war injuries—was returned.
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Northern Advocate, 13 June 1929, Page 6
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