BLOWN TO PIECES
MAN’S DETERMINED SUICIDE NEW ARRIVAL FROM HOME Press Association WHANGAREI, Today. By placing a detonator under his body and lighting the fuse, Edmund Hayes, aged 46, committed suicide at Puwera on Saturday evening, his body being blown to pieces. Hayes arrived in New Zealand from England in April with a son aged 14, intending to bring out his wife and three other children later. He was engaged in farming work for Mr. J. E. Lord at the time of the tragedy. He was observed to enter some scrub by his son, who heard the explosion and made the discover}' of his father’s death. At. the inquest yesterday a verdict, of suicide while of unsound mind was returned.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 709, 8 July 1929, Page 1
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120BLOWN TO PIECES Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 709, 8 July 1929, Page 1
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