STUDENT’S SUICIDE
A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN fPcr Press Association.) * CHRISTCHURCH, last night. The adjourned inouest into the death of Keith Bennie Miller, 17. a pupil of the Christchurch Bovs’ High School, who was found dead in the school grounds on Saturday morning, concluded this evening before Mr. E. C. Levvev, S. M. Dr. Edwin Douglas l’ullon, who was named in the note found on Miller’s body, said the boy called at his rooms the previous night. Miller was in a highly nervous condition, but otherwise his condition was satisfactory. Witness had a half-hour talk with him,' 'and thinking it advisable he reassured the boy about his studies, and left him with the. final exhortation not to press his studies. The boy said he had not been looking forward to coming in case the doctor found something serious. The hoy said he was being comfortably cared for.
Evidence was given by the police and. other witnesses as to tho finding of the body with a 22 calibre revolver with one chamber fired, in the dead hoy’s hand. The police, it was stated, had been unable to trace the revolver, or to discover bow it came into Miller’s possession.
The coroner found that Miller died from a revolver wound self-inflicted while suffering from a nervous breakdown.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17125, 4 December 1929, Page 4
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