GUM-DIGGER’S SUICIDE.
DEP®E«'SEp BY ILL-HEALTH. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dargavil-le, Last Night. Ivan Lulieh. a .iugo-Klav, aged 32 and single, was fo’.Vtid dead in a gum-dig-ging camp, on the-West Uoas-t Road last night. Deceased had shot him self with a double-barrelled shotgun by tieing a piece of string to his big toe an* the trigger of the giu>. The inquest revealed the fact that the deceased had been ill for some time, an<l had given - up, all hope, of recovery. He loft a letter stating his intention to take his life. After hearing the evidence by a surgeon and countrymen of the deceased, tlfe coroner brought in a verdict that deceased took his life while mentally through ill-health.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 November 1924, Page 7
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