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About half past 7 o'clock this (Wednesday) morning a milkman's assistant named Charles Smith, on going to deliver milk at the house of George Crane, a carpenter, at Brooklyn, noticed the door of the f'wlhouse open, and looking in he saw Crane's body suspended by a rope from the roof. The lad hurried away home and informed his e'der brother David, who went and looked at the body, but instead of cut-ting it down, he came into town to report the matter to the police. Mounted Constable Healy was despatched to tbe spot with all possibe hasto, but when ho ai'rived the body, which was lifeless, had be* n taken down by a neigh* bouring settler named David Teaze. It was removed to the house, to await an inquest. The house was found to have been locked up, the key l:e : ng deposited on the window sill. On the table in the kitchen Constable H>^aly found the following 1 letter writt n in ppncil on a sheet of hotenaper : "28th December. Inm sick on<? tired ot life. Goodbye, J-nnp, you ous?ht not to have gone and left inc. Georoe " The Christian name mentioned in the letter is that of dpceased's wife, whi it appears, left him about a month a»o. H e has been in a very despondent state of mind lately, but none fhis friends thoiv.-ht he contemplated doing away with himself. Crane was about 50 years of age.— Post.
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Manawatu Herald, 29 December 1892, Page 2
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242UNKNOWN. Manawatu Herald, 29 December 1892, Page 2
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