OLD MAN’S SUICIDE
“BROKE WITH POULTRY FARMING.”
By Telegraph—Per Press Association
AUCKLAND, Nov. 25. At the inquest on George Frederick Inurgood, whose charred body was found in the ruins of his house 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 severe pains in the stomach, from which the deceased suffered, deceased thought he had cancer, and said: “A man might as well be dead as suffering like I am suffering.” Deceased had been living apart from his wife, and for the last ten weeks he was alone in the house. The deceased’s body and a doublebarrelled 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 ii is to make an end of it. I am 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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Hokitika Guardian, 26 November 1929, Page 1
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198OLD MAN’S SUICIDE Hokitika Guardian, 26 November 1929, Page 1
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