SUICIDE.
Auckland, October 10
About midnight the police received a telephone message asking them to send an ambulance to the office of the tramway electrical engineer. Though the office was lighted they received no response to knocking. On entering they found Andrew Wilkes, employed by the Tram Company as an electrical engineer, dead in a chair, with a bullet through his head. A revolver was on the floor. Wilkes was a young man, and had been in the company’s employ for five months. He had been suffering from influenza in a severe form. He must have rung up the police before shooting himself.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3776, 17 October 1907, Page 3
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103SUICIDE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3776, 17 October 1907, Page 3
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