MYSTERIOUS SUICIDE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3602, 27 January 1883, Page 3

MYSTERIOUS SUICIDE.

Nelsox, This day. A man named John Fuller committed suicide at Happy Valley, Wakapueka, yesterday. It appears that Fuller a man of about IS years, gave information three 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 £4, the value of a dog belonging to Thompson, and which he (Fuller) had shot for worrying sheep. On Fuller being found dead it was thought that Thompson had carried out his threat, audit is stated now that Thompson has fled in fear. However, the whole of the circumstances conclusively show that Fuller shot himself. He left home at 5 a.m. yesterday to look after some cows, taking with him a gun. Later in the morning lus wife became alarmed, and sent her niece in search. The girl ultimately found Fuller in a clump of manuka, shot dead. A careful inspection of the ground shows no trace of any struggle, and it is evident that Fuller lay down with his gun under one arm, and having first tied a piece of flax round the stock he placed the gun to the centre of his forehead and pulled the flax. Death must have followed without a struggle. A quantity of brain was found on the grass below the wound.