SCHOOL TRAGEDY

Hokitika Guardian, 4 December 1929, Page 6

SCHOOL TRAGEDY

CORONER’S VERDICT. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 3. The adjourned inquest into the death of Keith Rennie Miller, aged 17 years, a pupil of the Christchurch Boys’ High School who was found dead in the school grounds on Saturday morning, was concluded this evening before Mr E. C. Lcvvy. Dr Edwin Douglas Pullon, who wfts named in a note found on Miller’s body, said tbe boy called at bis rooms ■the previous night. Miller was in a highly nervous condition but otherwise liis condition was satisfactory. Witness had a half-hour talk with him, and thinking it advisable, lie reassured the boy about bis studies, and left him with a final exhortation not to press bis studies. The boy said he had not been looking forward to coming, in case the doctor found something serious. He also said he was being comfortably cared for. Evidence was given by the police and other witnesses as to finding the body, with a twenty-two calibre revolver, with oiie chamber fired, in the dead body’s band. The police, it was stated, bad been unable to trace the revolver or to discover how it came into Miller's possession. . The Coroner found that Miller died from a revolver wound, self-inflicted, while suffering from a nervous breakdown.