FATAL BULLET WOUND.
YOUNG MAN'S SAD DEATH. STATE OF MENTAL DEPRESSION. f BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION. | CHRISTCHURCH, Friday An inquest was held to-day concerning the death of Raymond Leslie Duncan, aged 21, who was admitted to the Christchurch Hospital yesterday morning with a fatal bullet wound m his chest. Deceased's mother said her son had never been robust, but he had no worries except indifferent health. On Wednesday night he went to the pictures. He returned home and had supper and con versed cheerfully with his mother. * He then went out to the motor garage Wit ness heard him moaning at the back door She opened the noor and he staggered in, saying: "Mother, I have shot myself Get o. doctor." He said something also about "not being any good," and made a rambling statement, but gave no reason for his act. The coroner, Mr E D. Mosley, S.M . returned a verdict that Duncan ched from a bullet wound self-inflicted while in 'a state of mental depression.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19714, 13 August 1927, Page 14
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