SHELLSHOCK AND TRAGEDY
RETURNED SOLDIER’S DEATH. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Gisborne, November 2— Sad circumstances were revealed at the inquest on John Francis Hills, aged 45, who was found on Waikanae Beach dead from a gunshot wound. The evidence showed that deceased, a returned soldier of Ruatoria, had been suffering from shellshock. Ten weeks ago he was married, and after returning from the honeymoon had lived for just over a fortnight in a new bungalow he had built on his property, when husband and wife woke, up one night to find the place in flames. Building, furniture and wedding presents were all destroyed. This, combined witli shellshock, resulted in a depressed state of mind. The coroner returned a verdict that Hills died of a gunshot wound iu the chest, self-inflicted whilst in a state of acute mental depression.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1930, Page 7
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