GRUESOME FIND
(Press Assn.—
LETTER GUIDES MAILMAN TO MAN'S CHARRED . BODY DECEASED DETAILS HIS PLAN
-By Telegraph — O ^pyrlght) .
MASTERTON, Thursday. The mailman, on arrivmg a£ Longbush to-day, fousid a letter addressed to him stating that the writer was going to make a heap of logs in a nearby paddock, saturat.e them v/ith kerosene, and shoot himself on top of the pile. The mailman went to the spot indicated and there found the cliarred remains of a man's body. The deceased v/as Richard Monte- . ray Harcourt, a gardenelr, 65 years of age. As far as is known he was a ssngle man »vithou£ relatives in the Dominion. He was employed by Mr. Peter McLaren, who left him in the morning, when Harcourt was then in his normal state of health.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 58, 30 October 1931, Page 3
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