MENTAL DEPRESSION
NO OTHER WORRIES YOUTH SHOOTS HIMSELF. (Per Prews Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 12. An inquest was held to-day into tho death of R-ajjmond Leslie Duncan, aged 21, who was admitted to the hospital on Thursday morning with a bullet wound in the chest. Duncan, who had never been robust, had, according to his mother’s evidence, no worries except indifferent health. On Wednesday night he went to tho pictures, returned home, had supper, and conversed cheerfully with his mother and then went out to the garage. His mother heard him moaning at the back door. She opened the door and Duncan staggered in, saying: “Mother, I’ve shot myself. Get a doctor. He said something also about “not being any good,” and made rambling statements, but gave no reason for his act.
Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., returned a verdict that Duncan died from a bullet wound self-inflicted while in a state of mental depression.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19919, 15 August 1927, Page 6
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