ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
[Per Press Association.] DUN ED IN, July 4. Further particulars regarding the death of Richard Terry, aged eightysix years, who committed suicide at Kakapuaka, show that on Friday he broke his leg through slipping on frosty ground. He had been living alone. but since the accident Miss Cross bad stayed with him. Yesterday morning she* went - for the mail, and on returning found him dead. Indications pointed to the man struggling to another room by means of a crutch and shooting himself with a gun, discharging it with the aid of the crutch.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10197, 5 July 1911, Page 1
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