"NOTHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO."
L'KSI'OXUKXCY. KXUS IXSPIOIDK (Per Press Association ) AI'CKLANI), ,|„| V , 14J Edmund dordon Shields, residing with his wife „t M ( ,unt 1v.|,,„, ~„,„! milted suicide this morning i\d\ shooting himself in his bedroom 'with a revolver, while his wife wns away getting his breakfast. Shields, who was au insurance manager in Victoria three years ago. had been .somewhat demented of late owing to the lad that since his arrival in Ktew Zealand two a nd a hnlf years ago ho had been unable to procure, suitable .work. Lately lie had been working at a. brewery, <ynd o ften complainod that the work was too bard. On Monday night he told his wife that lit- w a s not going to work agnm,, siay,i|mg that hcvvmiitf T>|i fcbtJ ter dead, as he had nothing to' l oo k forward to but hard work.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7876, 19 July 1905, Page 2
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144"NOTHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO." Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7876, 19 July 1905, Page 2
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