BANK MANAGER'S SUICIDE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 11 April 1907, Page 2

BANK MANAGER'S SUICIDE.

THE INQUEST. Per Press Association. Auckland, April II). All ii quest was lield to-dny into the circumstances attending the tragic deatli of Henry Curnow, late manager of (lie Whangarei branch of the Hank of New Zealand, who shot himself with a revolver yesterday morning. I)r. .loncs deposed that the esinse of death was injury to the brain, the result of a Imllet wound.

I'ivderick John Oxlcy, a traveller, said lie heard the report, Iml look no notice of it until a young lady rushed on to the road and told biin a man bad shot himself. Witness ijuickly arrived oil the . .scene, but deceased was then dead. Ada 1-a lira Curnow, wife of deceased t dep.,,-1 that lor the last three weeks t her li-.isband appeared very despondent. She 1 bought he was worried About his s work, lie was on his way to the Head f Office in Wellington, lie had on one uel easioii threatened to take his life. In reply to the Coroner, witness said 9 her husband's life was uninsured. Diirl mg the whole of the voyage from Whant garci he paced up and down the deck. *l. P. Ue Castro, brother-in-law of the .1 deceased, staled that .Mr. liuckleton the manager of the Bank of Xew Zealand, t went 11]- to the house yesterday, and' e stated that, if Curnow left Whaii"'arei to ,1 go to Wellington oil bank business ) 1P n could not have been in his right mind, as he must have known that it meant instant dismissal. H was a most unusual thing to do. There had never been any domestic trouble, added .Mr. l)r- ( astro, and deceased and liis wirV h:u\ e always lived together happily. Deceased _ did nit see Air. liuckleton veslerday. 5, The jury returned a verdict that the cause of death was injury to the brain, the result of a revolver bullet wound, sell-mllicted, whilst of unsound mind.