DETERMINED SUICIDE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 180, 17 December 1912, Page 4

DETERMINED SUICIDE.

WELL-KNOWX TIKORANGI SETTLER. Quite a sensation was caused in Tikorangi and Waitara yesterday morning when it became known that the body of a well-known settler of Tikorangi, Mr. J. Terrill, had been found in the bush about two miles from his residence under circumstances that pointed to suicide. It appears that, on Saturday evening, after tea, the deceased walked out of the house saying that he was going to cut some wood, and that was the hist seen of him alive. As he never returned search parties were out all day Sunday and yesterday morning, when his body was discovered in the bush about two miles from bis residence, with a wound in the region of the heart, evidently indicted by a butcher's knife, which was found alongside the body. An inquest was held yesterday afternoon before Mr. J. Foreman, ActingCoroner, and a verdict of suicide whilst temporarily Insane was returned. The evidence showed that deceased had had a severe illness some two years ago, and since then had been intermittently strange in his manner. He leaves a wife and a large family.