MAN SHOOTS HIMSELF.
Christchurch, March 27
An inquest was held yesterday at Waikari touching the death of Eric Andrew Black, aged thirty, a single man, who had been found shot at Parnassus. Deceased had been considerably depressed of late, and was suffering from a fear that he would go wrong in the head. He had told his ( ’ r that he would be better deaa Uiau alive. He left home at 7.30 a.m. on on Wednesday, as if to go to Culverden, but some time later his body was found in a sheep pen. The top of his head was blown off, and there was a gun lying near him. A verdict was returned that death was due to a gun-shot wound inflicted by deceased while in a state of unsound mind.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1226, 28 March 1914, Page 3
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131MAN SHOOTS HIMSELF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1226, 28 March 1914, Page 3
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