SCHOOLBOY’S SUICIDE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 837, 4 December 1929, Page 6

SCHOOLBOY’S SUICIDE

DURING NERVOUS BREAKDOWN Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. The adjourned inquest into the death of Keith Rennie Miller, aged 17, a pupil at the Christchurch Boys’ High School, who was found dead in the school grounds on Saturday morning, was concluded this evening before Mr. E. C. Levvey. Dr. E. D. Pillion, who was named in note found on Miller’s body, said the boy called at his rooms the night before his death. Miller was in a highly nervous condition, but otherwise his condition was satisfactory. Witness had half an hour’s talk with him, and thinking it advisable he reassured the hoy about his studies and left him with the final exhortation not to work 100 hard. The boy said he had not been looking forward to coming in case the doctor found something serious. The boy said he was being comfortably cared for. Evidence was given by the police and other witnesses as to the finding of the body, with a .22-calibr© revolver, with one chamber fired, in the dead boys* hand. The police had been unable to identify the revolver or to discover how* it came in Miller’s possession. The coroner found that Miller died from a revolver wound, self-inflicted while suffering from a nervous breakdown. ____________________