Suicides.
Woodville, July 14. A man giving the name of Curtes, apparently a jockey, was found dead in a bedroom of the Club Hotel with a bullet hole in the centre of his forehead and a six-chambered revolver by his side. On a sheet of paper was found written : “ Please communicate G. W. Mitchell, State School, Palmerston N. Kindly keep this as quiet as possible on account of my relatives. I am doing this because I am disgusted with life.” No signnature was a - tached.
Auckland, July 14.
C. Brookes, a retired bootmaker, shot himself through the heart. He had been suffering from mental depression, probably the result of fistula.
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Opunake Times, Volume V, Issue 195, 17 July 1896, Page 2
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