"DEFICIENCY" IN STATE OFFICE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1635, 31 December 1912, Page 6

"DEFICIENCY" IN STATE OFFICE.

: .■ CLERK SHOOTS .HIMSELF. (By Teieiraph—Press'; Association.).; ' Dunedin, December . SO. :An inquest was. held.this afternoon, before Mr. Graham (coroner), on a body {supposed, to bo that of Charles B. Jar-

;man), which had been.found;in.tha bush ■ near -the northern cemetery, on Thursday. :-Dr. .Gordon ilacDonald '.stated tlidt, in ;one of the pockets he discovered a bank iwceipt upon the Union' Bank with a : name like "Jannan" on'it.' In the shirt, in the region of the heart,. he found a sniall hole, and' in the singlet and- skin there was a corresponding hole. He say, that.deceased 'died- from a bullet '.wound.', '■ .paptain,; :Beauinont, shippingj m'aster at •Dunedin, said that; Cj.;B. Jarman was a clerk in his office for about five years. jWituess..las.t,.saW:him,,on;the evening of December 2. Jarman knew that witness haid received a letter :'from the Department stating, that the, books were to be overhauled. Jarman ■ said that: everything was'in"'order "arid witness-then had -no doubt on the matter. Jarman, howeyer. did not turn up vext morning,, and, On 1 -the .books'" being examined,/ it was found that there was a' deficiencv of ,£62. It was ybry difficult to .state, amount\of ■ the deficiency withoiit a complete audit of the books. Witness, iden-tified-the;- writing on the/letter found bh; the'bo'dy'' aythat : of ■' JarriianV

■ 'The"cordner;said"that..there was no 'doubt -in 'his mind that-the body was that of Jarman, and ho brought in a, verdict -that the .cause'iof-death. was a'gunshot wound, self inflicted, while deceased was in a state of insanity. ~ , ;' :