GUARD STYLES SUICIDES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 220, 11 January 1911, Page 5

GUARD STYLES SUICIDES

A CEMETERY SHOOTING SENSATION. A FORMER JIAWERA RESIDENT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Bolton street cemetery was the scene of a sensational, tragedy this altcrnoon. About half-past three o'clock two lady visitors to tne cemetery received a shock, by observing a man lying on the bank in a prominent portion of the grounds with blood ilowiug freely from a wound in his head. .Information given to ft passer-by en abied the police to appear quickly on the spot. Investigation by Constable Snow disclosed the body of a man fully dressed. Near his right hand lay a loaded seven-chambered revolver, one chamber of which had been discharged. Tie was quite dead, and there was a bullet wound in the roof of his mouth. A pendant attached to the deceased's watch and chain bore this inscription: •R. Styles, Hawera, A.S.R.S.N.Z., Feb., 1907." The initials stand for the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants.) There was a letter addressed ''To my wife, Maggie Styles, Guildford Terrace." The deceased was a guard on th» Wellington-Auckland express section of the railway. He was between forty and fifty years of age, married, with one child. The-body, which was removed to the morgue, where it awaits an inquest to-morrow, was subsequently identified by railway employees as that of Robt. Styles, a well-known guard. No cauee so far has been assigned for Ofe" deed, j