BOY’S SUICIDE

Hokitika Guardian, 29 March 1933, Page 2

BOY’S SUICIDE

SEQUEL TO FAMILY TROUBLE

EVIDENCE AT THE INQUEST

(ROTORUA, Mavch 28. A verdict of suicide while a de ' mental tonxUtipn V a s jetume; the circumstance of the death of Pntrick Burgham, th* fifteen-year-old High School 'boy, who was found shot w: h a rifle beside him in the room ot home on February 15th Evidence wa fi given by to'c lor Clarke that on the night ] when passing the boy’s home, h het-d a violent domestic Wtreu between the decased's mother am us s tn=«as.d-s stepfather, F B. K. (McArthur, admitted, tbs quarrel. B. said he deft the house for a P'» K "’ “ S '• a n -liad. iust returned when terwards. He J , h “ rd , h : w with a rifle beside £ t He said the .'boy had interfered m quarrel, and he (witness) had “sented this; but he did not consul that the quarrel was a .serious ma«e In returning the verdict the Cmone said that he * not stepfather’s evidence as to the q and that he considered -that Die i state of mental depression rrhi n <r s | aggravated by this disturbance - had been said during the quarrel whmh Lhould never have been sald J ■ husband to his wife, and m Ms P ion, this affected the - hoy, who, the evidence showed, .had a sens ture. , ‘ .