A MINER’S SUICIDE.
“HOTELKEEPER GREATLY TO BLAME.” Greymoutk, Last Night. The body of Peter H. Kennedy, aged 49, a miner, was washed up by the sea yesterday on Blaketown Beach. He had been missing since July 6 from his home at Dobson. At the inquest held to-day, the coroner, Mr. Meldrum, S.M., expressed the opinion that the proprietor of Buieik’s Head hotel, Taylorville, wjas “greatly to blame,” for serving deceased with four drinks when he was already under the influence of liquor and with allowing him to go home after dark with nobody in attendance. A verdict of death by drowning by accidentally falling into the river, was returned.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3986, 20 August 1929, Page 3
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109A MINER’S SUICIDE. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3986, 20 August 1929, Page 3
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