ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
TAILOR'S SUDDEN DEATH. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dnnodin, Last Night. John "Robert Hawkins, aged 24, a tailor, living with his parents at Port Chalmers, was found dead in his room at I) p.m. on Saturday, under conditions pointing to suicide. The top of his skull was blown off and a .SKI rille was found beside him on the floor. Deceased went to Trentham camp last February, and while there he met with an accident, and was invalided home. He afterwards tried to rejoin the expeditionary forces, hut it is understood that he was unsuccessful, and his rejection appears to have preyed upon his mind. SEAMAN COMMITS SUICIDE. Napier, Last Night. A seaman, named John Mitchell, off the schooner Tearoha, 3iJ years of age, committed suicide by jumping off the western pier at Port Ahuriri this afternoon. . Mitchell was seen by a member of the pilot staff to go on to the pier, take off his coat and hat, and throw himself into the water. The body has not been recovered.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 314, 14 June 1915, Page 8
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172ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 314, 14 June 1915, Page 8
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