FOUND DEAD IN BUSH
NEW ZEALANDER’S END. NOTE BESIDE BODY. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received December 13, 5.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, December 13. The body of Percy Commins, a widower, formerly a resident of Now Zealand, was found in the bush at Leura, with a gunshot wound in the head. Alongside were a revolver and a note, in which Commins stated that he had been wandering in tho bush, had strained his ankle, and could not go much further. A son gave evidence that when his father left homo he was worrying about his health. The coroner found that Commins died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11702, 14 December 1923, Page 5
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