SUICIDE AT SEFTON
LABOURER SHOOTS HIMSELF. .(Per Press Association.’ CHRISTCHURCH, March 24. Henry Richard Savage, a labourer, aged 24, married, shot himself in the chest at Sefton evening. Savage was before' the Court on February 25, when a separation order was granted his wife, who has two young children, on the ground of persistent cruelty and failure to maintain. Savage continued to molest his wife at her father’s residence and she took proceedings ngainst him and he was to lave appeared in Court to-day. On Saturday he borrowed a shot gun from a neighbour and shot himself in the front room of his father’s house and expired a few minutes after he was found.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18972, 25 March 1924, Page 2
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114SUICIDE AT SEFTON Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18972, 25 March 1924, Page 2
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