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A WIFE'S FEARFUL FIND

AN ACCOUNTANT ENDS HIS LIFE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night, This afternoon a man named Maurice John Matthews was found dead at Brooklyn. Dr. Cozens found Matthews quite dead and stretched on the floor. A gun was in his left hand and a stick, alwut three feet long, was in contact with the trigger. Deceased had been bleeding profusely from the mouth and there was blood about the room. Matthews was about 54 years of age. He had been employed in Moorhouse and Iladfield's office as accountant. Mrs. Matthews, who returned from a visit to Khandallah by the 12.10 train, went to her husband's office thinking to accompany him home to lunch. Finding Jiim gone she took a car to Brooklyn! Just as she was going along the street she heard a gun-shot. When she entered the house she saw smoke and smelt gunpowder in the bedroom. She found her husband lying dead. Deceased had not been in good health for some time.

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 207, 6 October 1909, Page 3

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A WIFE'S FEARFUL FIND Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 207, 6 October 1909, Page 3

A WIFE'S FEARFUL FIND Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 207, 6 October 1909, Page 3

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