DRILL INSTRUCTOR'S SUICIDE.
A CIiIUSTCIII'RCiI SEXSATIOX. By Telegraph.—Per Press Association. Christcbiirch, Last Xight. At noon to-day, lying on the. river bank near Armagh Street bridge, in the North Park, was found the body of Drill-instructor Sergt.-Ma.jor Herbert | (!. P. Scott, a young man of twenty-live ov twenty-six years, who was recently discharged from the Trentham camp for being absent without leave. Scott had put the hamd'of a live-chambered revolver in his mouth and pulled the trigger. The. bullet came out on top of the right hand side of his head. Four live cartridges were left in the weapon. Letters found on the body pointed clearly to suicide. Evidently Scott bobelonged to Dunedin, for a. letter was addressed to his mother at a Dunedin address. It is stated that Scott wished to go to the front, but was asked to stay behind as drill instructor, and he was attached to the third reinforcements. I The body was dressed in civilian clothes.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 211, 13 February 1915, Page 8
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159DRILL INSTRUCTOR'S SUICIDE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 211, 13 February 1915, Page 8
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