The Suicidal Wave.
-—♦ — WELL KKOWN' CYCLIST SHOOT'S HIMSELF(Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, October 31. John "Win- Jones, aged 32, and well known a few years ago as a ■eiiampio'u amateur qycfist, subsided On Saturday by shooting himself through, the head. He was a single main residing with his in Opawa and since his iretiurni •niith the f^utingentisJ t t-rom South Africa two years ago, h-ad done no work. He left lionio in the uiorurng about nine) o'c'lo^k and 4it| iriat, .return;, 'tlioi^foi he iliad) ;:| l rTang'edi to; ,gK> to Dunediu by the express trainI S'eiiircih -was Imadla -and the biody was found bjy his two brothers late in the day. Deceased left letters announcing his intention' of ■oomniiiting 1 sukido
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Thames Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 10453, 31 October 1904, Page 3
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120The Suicidal Wave. Thames Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 10453, 31 October 1904, Page 3
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