SUICIDE AT WAIUKU.
A STEWARD SHOOTS HIMSKI^
At Waiuku yesterday morning, Daniel Cotton steward °" board the se - Wcka ' cornmitted suicide by shooting himself. About - M ven o'clock Captain Bright heard > noise in the cabin, caused, lie thought, by the cashing of crockery; but on going into the cabin he was horrified to tad the ■ reward King dead with a gun alongside him and a. wound in his-abdomen. : Deceased ww in financial difficulties, although not "to a serious extent and Ihfc ■ wems to have preyed on his mind. He had : borrowed a gun some time previously from i ; - a settler at Waiuku. He gave no indication '' rthis'iitention. and Captain Bright states ' that he curried out his duties in a particularly satisfactory manner the evening before, : riving every attention to the passengers. 'V In inquest will be held this morning early. to enable the steamer Weka to keep to her Vnie-table. ».,„_,,« • Cotton M 53 years of age. and leaves 4 widow. The remains will be brought to Onchunga and interred at Waikaraka ceme-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13336, 16 November 1906, Page 5
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171SUICIDE AT WAIUKU. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13336, 16 November 1906, Page 5
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