ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 616, 20 September 1909, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

j i , 187 Telegraph -Spaalal o<(tre»oonileoU - _ Groytown, September 10. A eettler nanied Geo. Wiggins was found outwde his house at Papauai on Saturday morning, with a fatal gunshot Wound in his breast t IS appears that deceased had rsent' I ?l S m^ n awa ? t0 aJ'end to sqnio shcop, and had i than fixed a fowling-picco in U two, /and nulled i the trigger- with a btnng Dr Bey was tent ] for, but, on examination,/found tint life was Mftmct Deoenwd lifts a s*on of Mr,T.'Wiggrae, I of Kuratawhiti, Grejtowa ' FINANCIAL VORRYAND SUICIDE, Chrietchurch, September 18. ' An inquest touching tha deatii.of Samuol Whaler Burkitt held to-day. > " Mm. Burkttt, deceased, stated that we last saw him olive about 10 80 o'clock on \ Ihursday morning. He was then leaving the house, ,and said that he was going tor a" stroll. As fax as witness knew, he did not take a revolver with him, but ho possessed a ro\olvor which was not now in the dra«ei m -vshich it / waa usually kopt, and she had been unable to find it. Her husband bought it about three or four years ago, when ho wns licensee of tho eastern Hotel Ho had got it, witness underv , stood, for purposes of eeli-d«fenco. Her husband appeared to bo a bit upset after the receipt of a summons from a Mr. Donaldson, but that was the fust time-that she had noticed anything unusual, as her husband had always paid , his way. She had asked him, when he got tho first snmroons, if he could pay tho money, and had urgod 'him to do so. lie had replied thaf his current account had run out, but he could pay tho amount lent Subsequently she had asked deceased if he had mado the money raattor all right with Donaldson, and he had replied in. the alhrmativo During the pa3t eighteen months her husband had 1 not coniidcd his financial matters to her in order that she might not m> worried Witness , knew of no othor troublo that would have led her husband to take his lite ■* A verdict wa? given that deceased committed suicide, and that his mind appeared to have been unhinged o«iug to financial difitcuUies

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