A SUICIDE
MAN SHOOTS HIMSELF IN WIFE’S PRESENCE.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) Auckland, last night. A man named William Cook, 32 years of age, committed suicide to-day by shooting himself in the head with a revolver. Deceased, who had arrived from Dunedin by the Elingamite on Sunday last, sought out his wife, who had left him five weeks previously, and met her to-day at noon by arrangement, in order to confer with a solicitor about obtaining a divorce. The man told her that he had been informed they would have to go to Dunedin to obtain a decree, and then accompanied his wife to her house. On arrival there he shot himself in her presence. A letter was found on him, showing that the act was premeditated.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 344, 19 February 1902, Page 2
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126A SUICIDE Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 344, 19 February 1902, Page 2
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