TRAGIC DEAT[?]

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 500, 6 April 1933, Page 4

TRAGIC DEAT[?]

(3UNSHOT WOi ROTORUA TAXIDERMlSfl DEAD IN iWOBKl shop I IN DEPRESSED C0M Under tragic circumsj death of a well-known resij torua occurred at about | yesterday mornd'ng whea 1 Jones, aged 57 years, was J as a result of gunshot xvoJ head believed to be self-ij The deceased was a taxiJ was found lying on theM workshop, 91 Hinemoa gl a double barrelled g'un besi|l Ieft cbamiber had heen disj there was a live cartjiVj other barrel. .1

For isome time past, decl tions have occasioned his f] relatives some concern andl when one of his youngestl died from tetanus poisoningl tressing circumstances,.|e| known to suffer periods of J tal distress. 1

On returning from Neifj ■some days ago," his son, I Jones noticed the severe mj under which' his father wj and that .he could not coij any particular work yl times incoherent in his spJ Although the deceased j mentioned to his son any, 1 of taking his own life, ttl ised thFserious state of iii'J : mind and yesterday motai out to seek.advice on thej to be followed. He wasl home for about 11 hours J father in ihe care of hisj wh'o.informed him on hfel his father had forced opl of. the .workshop with- a j The son immediately tek!

police and finding the.-wol standing p'artly open enteiJ to find his father lying 3 in a pool of blood 'and J merless double-barralled 3 him. The police and Dr. h were called but found tkl man to be beyond. huipsJ workshop door h'ad heen J the son hefore he left iel the tomah'awk had been ti ceased from a woodpilel house. I