SPIRIT GONE
OLD MAN COMMITS SUICIDE
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, 25th November.
At an inquest on George Frederick Thurgood, whose charred body was found in the ruins of his houso at Swanson last Friday, a neighbour said that on Thursday the deceased told him he had been to a chemist, who could do nothing to relieve the severe pains in the stomach from which the deceased suffered. The deceased thought he had cancer, and said: "A man might as well be dead as suffering as I am suffering." Deceased had been living apart from his wife, and for the last ten weeks was alone in the house.
Deceased's body and a double-bar-relled gun. were found in. the debris of the house after the fire.
A constable produced the- following letter addressed to the police, found in the fowlhouse: "I am just a broke old man—broke with poultry farming. The only way I can get away from it is to make an end of it. lam insured in the British Traders. I don't know if they will pay out; if they do so, pay to my crippled son." A verdict of suicide by shooting was returned.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 128, 26 November 1929, Page 15
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195SPIRIT GONE Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 128, 26 November 1929, Page 15
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