MAN FOUND SHOT.
BULLET WOUND IN HEAD. A VERDICT OF SUICIDE. [by telegraph— own correspondent.] CHRISTCHURCH. Friday. A verdict of suicide whilo temporarily insane was returned bv the coroner. at the adjourned inquest into the death of Charles Lyes, who was found dead at Woolston on Saturday with a bullet wound in the head.
Dr. Pearson, hospital pathologist, said that the wound in the head was unusual, but he considered it- quite , possible to have been self-inflicted.
The inquest had previously been adjourned as the coroner had expressed doubt as to whether the wound could have boen self-inflicted.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20922, 11 July 1931, Page 13
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