Suicide.
A man named William Cook, 82 years, committed suicide on Tuesday at Auckland by shooting himself in the head with a revolver. Deceased, who had arrived on Sunday last from Dunedin by the Elingamite, bought out his wife, who had left him five weeks previously, and met her on Tuesday at noon by arrangement, in, order to confer with a solicitor about obtaining a divorce. The man told her be iftd 1)600 in* formed they would bare to go to Dunedin to obtain a decree, and then accompanied bis wife to her house. On arrival there, he shot himself in her presence. A letter was found on him showing the act was premeditated. /
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Manawatu Herald, 20 February 1902, Page 2
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114Suicide. Manawatu Herald, 20 February 1902, Page 2
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