DEATH OF CONSTABLE
■ LETTER TO COMMISSIONER. PRODUCED AT INQUEST. ... Press Association —Copyright, ASHBURNTON, This Day. Consequent on the allegations by Mr. W. J. Hunter, counsel for the relations, that Commissioner McElveney had suppressed letters received by him from the deceased, the commissioner attended the adjourned in quest on Constable D. 0. Brown, of Rakaia, who shot himself on February 18. The Commissioner proed a letter which he said was a State document and he could therefore re" fuse production, but he brought it show there was in it nothing to load them to the cause of dealth. He described as nonsense the statement that a man would be dismissed if hei applied for a transfer. The verdict was one of suicide during acute mental worry.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 9, 6 March 1930, Page 5
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125DEATH OF CONSTABLE Stratford Evening Post, Issue 9, 6 March 1930, Page 5
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