YOUNG MAN’S DEATH.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20273, 6 April 1934, Page 8

YOUNG MAN’S DEATH.

Per Press Association. THAMES, April 6. Maurice Daniel Cobb, aged nineteen years, whose parents reside in Thames, died about ten o’clock last evening allegedly from the effects of poison. It is reported that Cobb’s mother found her son at the back door, and that the latter stated that he had taken poison. A doctor was summon ed, but Cobb was dead when the doctor arrived. A post-mortem examina tion is probable. It is stated that Cobb attended football practice last evening when he was in good spirits. He was a promising Thames junior representative last season. Self-inflicted Wound. Per Press Association. WAIPUKURAU, April 6. The death occurred under tragic circumstances in the Porangahau district yesterday, shortly after midday, of Herbert Eric White, 29 years of age, son of a well-known settler. White’s body was found at the back of a shed on Wangaehu station, with a gunshot wound in the head. At the inquest last evening, a verdict was returned that death was due to a gunshot wound self-inflicted while in a depressed state of mind. The evidence showed that White suffered from spinal meningitis when aged fifteen and had never fully recovered.