PROVINCIAL NEWS.
[united press association.] Auckland, June 13. Mr William Picket, sharebroker, committed suicide at his lodgings at Mrs Griffith’s, Wellesley street. Late last night he had locked himself in his bedroom, undressed, and shot himself through the heart with a double-bar-relled gun. A few minutes before the event Mrs Griffiths heard him say in his bedroom that “ men were after him.” He had been out the previous night, but returned to his lodgings last night. There is no clue to the cause for the deed, except that he had been drinking. He was a single man and had no relations here.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2492, 14 June 1884, Page 2
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