FATAL EXPLOSION
MAN KILLED IN HIS BEDROOM.
SISTER'S GRUESOME DISCOVERY.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night.
Attracted by a loud explosion in a bedroom cwcupied by her brother, Alfred Luke Donnelly, a widower aged 48 years, of Upper Queen Street, this morning, his sister, Mrs. Walters, entered the room to find him terribly injured, his head being blown almost completely off. She at once informed another brother; who sent for a doctor, but life was already extinct.
At an inquest the dead man’s brother, P. L. Donnelly, said he had taken breakfast to his brother in bed about half an hour before, when he appeared normal. Though quiet, he had spoken of taking his ’ life at times, but little attention had been paid to it. He had been on sustenance for some time and had recently been ordered to camp. He was expert in the use of explosives, but the witness had never seen any in the house. The inquest was adjourned.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 October 1935, Page 5
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