THE ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12460, 9 February 1909, Page 4

THE ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.

[United Peess Association.] ' '.■•:• -^■•' r ''- ? Dunedin, Feb. .8. - - Th§ invest on the body of Samuel Lewis Brookes, who shot himself^ ii^oS HiU last -Monday,- was concluded to-day. Annie -f™££\££' wife of deceased, stated, that, after Xme words had been; exchanged, the deceased fired two -shots -from ax*volver. One struck her on the. cheek and- the second touched .the^bac^o her headY making it bleed, _ She ther rushed outside, when a third shot W D/Fitehett said there were thre. wounds about Mrs . Brooke^ head One wound was immediately m iron, of the left ear, abound P^^f wound with a good deal of charnnt. surrounding the skin ; the Beconc was a triangular lacerated wound . immediately below the left eye; ; anc the third one was on the hack ot tn< held on^the right side The wounc near the ear, and that below th left eye rwere in communication. itconcluded these wounds had beer caused by a Sullet which entered v 1 front of the ear, glanced off thebon< and emerged beneath the eye. lh< wound at the back of the head was ,t longitudinal abrasion, such as mighbe caused by a bullet glancing ovei 1 the skin. .< ."■'■•■ " •-,."- ,^ :. i ; The^jury returned a verdict -tna-; 1 deceased:" came by his death from c 1 bullet-wound, self-inflicted; while in c r temporary fit of insanity.