At Bayley’s Reward, Coolgardie (W.A.), on September loth a man named Edwin Hurlestone committed suicide. Hurlestone lived with his wife and daughter in a hessian house at the mine. It appears that the deceased’s wife left her husband reading a novel entitled “ Hand and Ring ; or, The Story of a Mysterious Crime.” While reading the “penny horror he came across a chapter relating to an inquest. Without further ado, he laid down the volume, marking the passage which seemed to disturb his equilibrium, and, finding his revolver, shot himself through the brain. His wife, hearing the report, hastened to the house, and there found her husband lying in a pool of blood. The police were communicated with, and removed the body to tie Zuorgue-
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1285, 15 October 1896, Page 11
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124Untitled New Zealand Mail, Issue 1285, 15 October 1896, Page 11
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