ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
SUICIDE IN A HOTEL. [Pie Pbxm Association.] Auckland, Decemijer 1. An inquest was he'd to-day into the circumstances of the death of Percy Mason, laborer, of Tokomaru Bay, who was found shot through the head in a room of the Imperial Hotel on Sunday morning. Deceased was a man of fort} year, of age, well supplied with money, but of an absent-minded and taciturn disposition. He had been ten da.Ms in the city, and the" loss of a dog which he bad brought with him seemed to worry him. The report of a revolver heard on Sunday morning alarmed ihe hotel inmates, and Mason was found in his room dead. His bed hat' not been slept in. The coroner returned a verdict of suicide.-
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 287, 2 December 1914, Page 2
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126ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 287, 2 December 1914, Page 2
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