FOUND DEAD
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, August 18. With the top Of his head blown off, Alfred King, a midlde-aged man, was found dead in a sleeping hut at the rear of R. Musson’s bakery yesterday.
King was formerly in charge of one of Musson’s coffee stalls. . He was found lying, on the lloor of the hut, with a shot gun across his chest. Some weeks ago ■ another employee was found dead in another of the sleeping huts, a verdict of suicide being returned. At the- inquest inta the death of King to-day, evidence was given by fellow employees that he had been worried and depressed lately, owing to liis indifferent health. The Coroner, Mr E. O. Lcvvey. returned a verdict of suicide. 1
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 August 1929, Page 1
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