BOY'S DEATH
SELF-INFLICTED WOUND
(Special to "The Evening Post.")
CHEISTCHUKCH, This Day. The adjourned inquest into tho death of Keith Eennio Miller, aged 17, a pupil of the Christchurch Boys' High School, who' was found dead in the school grounds on Saturday morning, concluded before Mr. E. C. Levvey^ Coroner.
Dr. Edwin Douglas Pullou, who was named in the note found on Miller's body, said the boy called at his rooms the previous night. Miller was in a highly nervous condition, but otherwise his condition was satisfactory. Witness had a half-hour talk with him, and, thinking it advisable, he reassured the boy about his studies and left him with a final exhortation not to press his studies. The boy said he had not been looking forward to coming in caso the doctor found something seriously wrong with him. The boy sard he^was being comfortably cared for Evidence was given by the police and other witnesses as to the finding of the body with a .22 calibre revolvfr with hand? fired> iU the dead The police, it was stated, had been unable to trace the revolved or to aL cove r llow it camo intQ Mil]er , s to g d£
The Coroner found that MilJer ilinfl from a revolver wound self!hiflic ed while suffering from a nervous b«ak-
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 136, 5 December 1929, Page 10
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217BOY'S DEATH Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 136, 5 December 1929, Page 10
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