ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Southland Times, Issue 20941, 26 November 1929, Page 7

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

FOUND DEAD. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, November 25. The dead body of Archibald Claude Moore, a hospital patient, who was being treated for nerve trouble, was found in Grafton Gully. He was a middle-aged married man. CAR OVER BANK. Gisborne, November 25. Four occupants escaped serious injury but two ladies were badly bruised and shaken when a car driven by Einear Thomson, of Motu, stalled on a steep hill, and ran back over a 30ft bank. The car was badly damaged. MOTORIST’S DEATH. Taumarunui, November 25. At the inquest on 11. C. Black, who was killed in a motor accident on Friday, a verdict of accidental death was returned, no blame being attachable to anyone. SUICIDE BY SHOOTING. Auckland, November 25. At the inquest on George Frederick Thurgood, whose charred body was found in the ruins of his house at Swanson last Friday, a neighbour said that on Thursday, deceased told him he had been to a chemist who could do nothing to relieve severe pains in his stomach from which deceased suffered. Deceased thought he had cancer and said, “A man might as well be dead as suffering like lam suffering.” Deceased had been living apart from his wife, and for the last 10 weeks was alone in the house.

Deceased's body and a double barrelled gun were found in the debris of the house after the fire. A constable produced the following letter addressed to the police, found in the fowlhouse: “I am jpst a broken old man, broke with poultry farming. The only way I can get away from it is to make an end of it. lam insured in the British Traders. I don’t know if they will pay out. If they do so, pay to my crippled son.” A verdict of suicide by shooting was returned.