TRAGIC FIND BY THE POLICE.
TUTOR'S TERRIBLE ACT. (Br Telegraph-Press Association.) Wannanui, Juno 2J. The mystery attaching to the disappearance of J. M. Gibbons, tutor to A. Sutherland (Fordell), has been cleared up by a tragic discovery by the police. Some distance away from the house they canto upon a quantity of smouldering wood, which proved to have been a funeral pyre, for in Ihe ashes were found tho skeleton of a man, ;uul tho remains of a razor. In a nolo which tho deceased left in the house, he had intimated his intention of committing suicide. Be indicated that he would set lire to a stack of manuka, throw himself on it, and take, his life. Deceased added an apology to the owner of the manuka for destroying his wood.
Tho stack referred lu contained several cords.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1163, 26 June 1911, Page 4
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138TRAGIC FIND BY THE POLICE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1163, 26 June 1911, Page 4
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