THE DUNEDIN TRAGEDY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 13, 9 February 1909, Page 2

THE DUNEDIN TRAGEDY

EVIDENCE AT THE INQUEST. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Duuedin, List Night. ! The inquest on the body of Samuel Lewis Brooks, who shot himself at Maori Hill last Monday, was concluded to-day^ Annie Brooks, wife of deceased, stated that after sonm words had been exchanged. deceased lircd two shots from a revolver. One struck her on the cheek and the other touched the back ol her head, making it bleed. She then rushed outside, and a third shot was lired. Dr. FiteheU said there were three wounds alwut Mrs. Brooks' head. One wound Was immediately in front of the left ear, a round punctured wound with a good deal of charring surrounding the *km: the second was a triangular and Werated wound, immediately below the left eye; and the third was on the hack of her licjul 071 the right side. The wound near the ear and that below the eye were in communication. lie concluded' these wounds luid been caused by a bullet which entered in front of •the ear, glanced. oIV ttie hone, and emerged beneath thu eye. The wound iit: the back of the head was a longitudinal abrasion, such us might have been caused by a Wllet glancing over tlio i skin. The jury returned a verdict that deceased came by his dcAith from a bullet ! wound, self-inflicted, while in a tem--1 pornry lit of insanity.