WANGANUI BUSH TRAGEDY
FATE OF A MISSING MAN. WANGANUI, Sunday. The mystery attaching to the- disappearance of G. M. Gibbons, tutoi* to Mr, A. Sutherland' (Fordcll), has bofcn cleared u|> by a tragic discovery ,by the 'police. Some distance f rom the house they catno ■upon a quantity of smouldering wood, which proved to have beohi a funeral pyre, for hv the ashes, were found the?, skeleton of a man and the remains of iv razor. In a note which deceased'left ini the- house hci had' intimated his intention of committing suicide. He iivdicated.h'3 would set fire to a stack oif itnaiiiuka/ - throw himiself on it, and cut his throat', . details .being given of the artery he would sever. Deceased' added an apology to the owner of the manuka for destroying his wood stack, referred to as containing severa] cord's.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 26 June 1911, Page 4
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140WANGANUI BUSH TRAGEDY Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 26 June 1911, Page 4
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