AN INVENTOR'S END
VERDICT OF SUICIDE,
(Peb United Press Association.)
IXYKRCARGILL/ July 30.
An inquest was held to-day on the body of James Hancock, who 'shot himself at Kapaka yesterday.
Tho evidence indicated that a nail had been driven into the table in dceeascd's whare, and that after aligning the gun with a cartridge case wedged between tho triggers, he discharged it by pulling the fore trigger against the nail,, blowing his head to fragments,
Deceased was 33 yea.rs of age, and had a brother in the North Island. IHg expetimcnts with an electric weed eradicator had been very successful. Deceased had told a man with whom lie had his meals that ho had seen tho doctor, who had given him only threo months to live. He had had a bad leg, and walked with a limp, the result of an old accident.
A verdict of suicide while temporarily insano was returned.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14280, 31 July 1908, Page 5
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