ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
A FATAL HEART SEIZURE. (Pee United Press Association.) _ . WAIROA, June 26. Henry William Barrow, a cook employed at the public works camp at Te Maire, was found dead in the cookhouse this morning. The deceased, who was an ex-ship’s officer and an ex-sergeant in the Norfolk Regiment, leaves a wife aid. family at Wellington. At the inquest a verdict, was returned of death from heart seizure, , SOLICITOR FOUND DEAD. VICTIM OP SEVERE DEPRESSION. (Pfb United Pbess Association.) . CHRISTCHURCH, June 26. James Allison Beattie, aged 74, a solicitor, raiding at 179 Deans avenue, was tound. dead in his home this morning with a shotgun alongside. At the inquest held in the afternoon evidence was given by Beattie, a son of the deceased, and Dr Whetter that Beattie had recently had a severe attack of influenza, which had beep accompanied during the illness and period of convalescence by acute depresJustly retarded'his return to health. The, coroner. (Mr E. D. Mosfound that death was due to a &unsbot wound m the head, self-inflicted while suffering from extreme mental depression following an attack of influenza.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21063, 27 June 1930, Page 12
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