EX-DETECTIVE BENJAMIN.
[ COMMITS SUICIDE. (By Tclejrraph.—Press Association.) Palmerston North, November 17. Ex-Dctoctivo Lionel Benjamin, well*, known in various parts of tho Dominion, nnd who was stationed at various times at Clmstehurch, Wellington, Wanganui, and Napier, 6hot himself at his residence tin's evening. Ho had apparently been in normal spirits, and had been busy all day rearranging his house. After dinner he went to his room, and put a revolver bullet into his temple; ho remained alivo at the hospital, but unconscious, until nftor eleven o'clock, when ho died. So for no reason is aliened, but it was said that Benjamin, who has kept himself in lino condition by physical culture sinco ho left the force some five years ago, had suffered rocontlj- from internal pains. Ho loaves a widow, two Rons, and A step-daughter.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1289, 18 November 1911, Page 4
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134EX-DETECTIVE BENJAMIN. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1289, 18 November 1911, Page 4
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