DETERMINED SUICIDE AT ONEHUNGA.
(PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, January 13. Mr Admon Chapman, of Noi mar’s Hill, Onehuuga, committed suicide at 1.30 a.m. lie got a single barrelled rifle, and attaching a strap to the triggar of tha gun and to his foot, fired the weapon and blow his brains out. The nighbours heard two shots at an interval of tan minutes, which is somewhat singular. The deceased was found fully dressed sitting in a choir. He was a man of independent means, about 50 years of age, and married, . Li TER. The jury before whom tha inquest on Mr Chapman’s body was conducted, found that he shot himself while in a state of temporary insanity, caused by domestic troubles.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1037, 15 January 1892, Page 23
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119DETERMINED SUICIDE AT ONEHUNGA. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1037, 15 January 1892, Page 23
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