A CARPENTER’S DEATH
Dunkdin, June 28.
An inquest was held touching the death ol Henry Garrett, a carpenter, whose body was found on Wedneseay at Pelichet Bay butts. Dr Gordon MacDonald deposed that a bullet had penetrated the apex of the heart and the base of the lung, and, embedded itselt in the spinal column. Such a wound would certainly have been inflicted bv deceased himself.
Sarah Garrett, widow of deceased, said deceased had been despondent and low-spirited. Witness did not think deceased was “right,” even before their marriage, in March last, and latterly she thought he was getting quieter. Deceased had always had poor health, and had had rheumatic fever twice. Their relations were of the happiest. Deceased used to do peculiar things, and would often say his mind was a blank. She did not know ’that his financial affairs were in a complicated condition until after his death. She was sure deceased had never kept a revolver in the house.
Herbert Austin, a traveller, said deceased had never consulted a medical man, and could not be induced to do so.
The jury returned a verdict that death was caused by a gunshot wound, self-inflicted, when deceased was in a state of temporary insanity. .
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3768, 29 June 1907, Page 3
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205A CARPENTER’S DEATH Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3768, 29 June 1907, Page 3
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