ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 82, 29 November 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

DEAD BODY FOUND

(Per Press Association.) Gore, November 28. Roderick Cleaver, aged 25 was found shot in the Waikaia Bush, not far from his camp, yesterday. He had evidently been dead for some time. Cleaver left his camp on the 18th, and bad not been seen since. Deceased, who was a native of London, came to the Dominion six years ago. A SUICIDE’S FAREWELL. Dunedin, November 25. Mr. C. C. Graham, Coroner, held an enquiry this afternoon concerning the death of Stephen Harrington 19 years of ao-e, who was found dead, hanging from” the rafters of a stable ye ter day, at his father’s farm, at Shiel Hill. Anderson’s Bay. The following _ note, written in pencil, was found in his bedroom by his father: —“Dear fat.ier, I am tired of the world, and it gives me pain to think that you have done so much for me and have been so good a father to me, so good-bye to Rome and yoi\rself. I am, your son Stove. The evidence submitted showed that deceased had been in good spirits and apparently bad no worries. The Coroner said that there was no doubt that this was a case of suicide by hanging while in a temporary state of insanity. '