SUICIDE.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 683, 30 January 1883, Page 2

SUICIDE.

: ♦ [press association telegram.] ' Nelson, January 26. It is reported that a case of murder has occurred at Happy Valley, Wakapuaka. A man named Fuller has laid an information against one Thompson for threatening ' to" do for him." This morning Fuller was found shot. No more particulars are i to hand yet. Later. There is virtually no doubt remaining now that the rumored case of murder is aituply one of suicide. John Fuller, & man : of about forty-eight years, gave informa- : tibn two days ago that he had been assaulted and considerably knocked about by a man named Thompson, and he also laid an information that Thompson had threatened " to do " for him unless he paid [ JB4, the value of a dog belonging to Thompson,- and which he had shot for worrying sheep. On Fuller being found dead, it was thought Thompson had . carried out his threat, and it is stated now that Thompson has fled in fear., However, the whole circumstances cpnclupively ' show that Fuller shot himself.' He left ' home at five o'clock this morning to look after cows, taking with him a gun. Later in the morning his wife became alarmed, and sent her niece in search. The girl 1 ultimately found Fuller in a clump of 1 manuka shot dead. A careful inspection 1 of the ground showed no trace of a 1 struggle, and it is evident Fuller laid 1 down with his gun under one arm, having first tied a piece of flax to the trigger, and having passed the flax round the stock, j he placed the gun to the centre of his 1 forehead and pulled the flax. Death : followed without a struggle, and a quantity of the brain was found on the grass I below the wound,.