CORNISHMAN TIRED OF LIFE.
DIES BY HIS OWN HAND, (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 17. At about half-past five o'clock today, a lad named Edwin Williams, who resides in the Domain, reported to the police that a man had shot himself. Cons-table Skinner went to the spot, and found an elderly man lying bleeding from the mouth. He was alive, but unconscious. . A sixchambered revolver, one barrel of which had recently been discharged, was lying beside him. A box of cartridges was found' upon him, and ;n one of his coat pockets was found the following state- 1 ment: —"l am James Trahair, Corns i-Uman, who is tired of life, and who has been a great sufferer .from indigestion and kidney disease, and who ha 3 spent almost a small fortune for little or no good, and I can neither eat nor sleep. I come to my death by my own hand. I have been in New Zealand 31 years, and am 64 years of age."
At about s'ix o'clock the police were notified that the man had died.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7825, 18 May 1905, Page 3
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179CORNISHMAN TIRED OF LIFE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7825, 18 May 1905, Page 3
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