MAN’S BODY SHATTERED
SON’S TERRIBLE DISCOVERY. SUICIDE OF IMMIGRANT. By Telegraph.—Press As-uciatioa. Whangarei, July 8. . By placing r detonator under hl® stomach and lighting the fuse Edmund Hayes,'aged 4G, committed suicide at Pawera on Saturday evening. His body was shattered into an unrecognisable Hayes arrived in New Zealand from England in April last with a son aged 14 and intending to bring out his w°ife and three other children later. H® was engaged in farming work for J. E, Lord at the time of the tragedy. H® was observed to enter some scrub by his son, who heard the explosion and made the gruesome discovery. ■ At the inquest yesterday . a verdict was returned of suicide while of unsound mind.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 July 1929, Page 7
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