BOY SHOOTS HIMSELF.
EDEN TERRACE TRAGEDY.
FOUND DEAD ON BED.
INDICATIONS OF SUICIDE.
A fourteen-.tear.old boy named Claude Henry Waddell was found dead in bed at his father's residence, Devon Street. Eden -terrace, yesterday morning under circumstances pointing to deliberate suicide. The boy, who was employed in an office in the city, lived with his father, Mr. C. H. Waddell, who is a widower, and by trade a baker's driver. Mr. Waddell left the house to go to work at 7.50 a.m., wh?.i the boy was in bed, apparently in his usual good health, his manner giving ii" indication that he intended killing himsrlf. Shortly before 1 p.m. Mr. Waddell ivtu-. ad to the house, and upon entering tie- bedroom found the boy King dead on the oed, fully dressed, and with a wound over the region of his heart. A pea rifle was on the floor.
*uJ' i. fc was summoned, and found that the boy was shot through the heart and .ha- he had evidently been dead for son-._- time.
The faAy left a note pinned upon the wall, but it contained nothing to indicate any reason for suicide.
An inquest will be held at the Coroner's Cour' at 9.30 a.m. to-day.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16300, 5 August 1916, Page 9
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