A Doctor Shoots Himself.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 217, 27 August 1887, Page 4

A Doctor Shoots Himself.

At the inquest on Dr. Lentaigne, Who shot himself in Sydney, the evidence of Margaret Lynch, a servant in the employ of deceased, Vent to show that on Saturday evening she was in the house. No one else was there excepting deceased, Mis Lentaigne having cone out to visit some friencK She, at the doctor's request, went out, brought the baby home and pub ib to bed, afterwards serving him with his <ea, and leaving him reading a newspaper. She then went to the kitchen and heard a noise as of a lamp ex- m ploding and a chair and (something el.>o falling, going to the room .sbe had left, she saw the doctor lying v\ ith his shoulders towards the door and his head on the iloor. He was evidently dead, and thine v*as' a stream of blood coming from hih head and running on the iloor. She g.ivc the alarm to some neighbours, and they then found a, revolver tying- on the iloor close to where the dead body A\as lying. She fiuther deposed that the deceased did nub appear despondent, that he and his wife apparently lived on the happiest terms, and that he had told her during the afternoon that he expected some Mends to dinner the following day. The jury found "that the said Henry Westenra Lentaigne died fiom tho etleets of a pistol-shot \oound in his head indicted by himself, but -\\ hether intentionally or accidentally the evidence doeh not enable us •to decide."