A METHODICAL SUICIDE.
Per Press Association. Auckland, Wednesday, About midnight the police received a telephone message asking them to send an ambulance to the office of the tramway electrical engineer. Though the oilice was lighted, they received no response to their knocking. On entering, they found Mr. Andrew Wilkes, employed by the Tramway Company aa electrical engineer, dead, reclining in o chair. A bullet had passed through his head, There was a revolver on the floor. Wilkes was a young man. lie 'had been in the company's employ for five months. Lately he had been suffering from influenza in a severe form. Auckland, Last Night. At the inquest this afternoon it was stated that deceased's wife had returned to England _ about two months ago. Their domestic relations were not happy. The sergeant of police stated that a telephone message was received, presumably from deceased, to send an ambulance round about 1 o'clock, as somehing was happening at the moment of teleponing. A verdict that deceased had shot himself while temporarily deranged was returned.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 17 October 1907, Page 2
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173A METHODICAL SUICIDE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 17 October 1907, Page 2
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