GARDENER ATTEHPTS SUICIDE
DESPONDENTTHROUGH WAXT OF WORK. [By Telegraph—Press Association.] Auckland, last night. A man named William Pharoah, employed as a gardener, attempted to commit suicide by shooting himself in the temple with a small pocket pistol. He had been despondent lately at not obtaining constant employment. Ho toid his wife he would lie down, jmil shortly afterwards she heard a shot and found her husband bleeding from a wound in the right temple, and took the pistol from him. The bullet had lodged over the temple, and is embedded in the bone. The injuries are not regarded as dangerous.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 228, 4 October 1901, Page 2
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