DRIVEN TO SUICIDE.
A PENSIONER’S END. WELLINGTON, January 12. _C. C. Beumelberg, an old-age pensioner, over 70 years of age, shot himself this morning in his cottage in Constable street. The suicide was evidently deliberate. He tied a double-barrelled shot gun to the brickwork of the copper, sat down on a box opposite, and pulled the trigger with a walking-stick, the bullet penetrated over the heart. The man was not in financial difficulties, but had been suffering severely from rheumatism. for some time. The body was fourfd by the milkman. The deceased left two notes—one to the milkman and the other to the coroner.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2914, 19 January 1910, Page 12
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104DRIVEN TO SUICIDE. Otago Witness, Issue 2914, 19 January 1910, Page 12
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