TRAGIC AFFAIRS.

Taihape Daily Times, 26 August 1919, Page 6

TRAGIC AFFAIRS.

SUPPOSED DEMENTED IVIAN SUICIDES. NAPIER, Aug.. 24. At Omahu.on Saturday morning, a man named Alfred Powrell, who ahd been acting in a strange manner late--3},_bleW off the top of his head with a gh'ot"gun_ As the result of complaints received concerning Powdrell’s be’? haviour, the natives being afraid he would shoot somebody, Constable Murray went out, and when within 30 yards Of the deceased, the latter put his head Over the muzzle of a gun which. had been standing nearby, and I-fished the trigger with avstick. Death Was instantaneous. ’ A 110SDita1 patient named Ahearn, Suffering from an incurable complaint, is. missing from the institution. ‘He escaped from the institution on Sun- ; ;‘:y last and junlped into the sea near . e breakwater, but was pulled out by 3‘ pasS°~r'by- After ‘being sent home, he wasrcturned to the hospital, froni 1 ‘Which is escaped again. '1