TIRAU TRAGEDY.

Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 266, 13 December 1928, Page 5

TIRAU TRAGEDY.

VERDICT AT INQUEST. Overwork and 111 Health. The adjourned inquest into the tragic deaths of Stanley Owen and Bruce Trevor Chapman, the two brothers involved in the sensation at Tirau last week, was held before Mr. T. F. Snell, J.P., acting coroner, and a jury of four at the Putaruru Courthouse on Wednesday morning. After hearing the evidence the jury returned the following verdict:— “ That Stanley Owen Chapman met his death by a wound self inflicted with a .22 calibre bullet while in a state of acute mental depression caused through overwork and worry,' -intensified by the inhalation of fuines from carbon bisulphide improperly used in poisoning rabbits.’’ “ That Bruce Trevor Chapman met his death from a gunshot wound apparently inflicted by his brother, H&tanley Owen Chapman, while in a Pstate of acute mental depression.”

j Last year we raised pigs f'ytfP®*’ I flip of it—there was no profit©; iieI dared a Morrinsville farmd l” : • the other dny. He snid that wherg/formerly the sale pigs had realised £IBO, last season he netted only £SO. “Th: s season’s returns ere somewhat >-1 nt were not 'equal to the - ruling before the slump. The ti : -sable was that last season, breeding, inspired by the high prices of vhe previous ’year, was heavier . than Scj'-i. and the market .was' - flooded with stores. Some of the: •> were still rnrcihg on to the market, which was still low.