STRANGE SUIICDE.
MILITARY, REJECT SHOOTS H'IMSELF. * Wairoa, Tuesday.' News reached town last evening that a young man named William Erie Neale, aged 38, son of Mr. W. A. Neale, a wellknown retired farmer at AYaikarcmoana, had been found dead with ,v bullet wound over liß'heart. The. body was 'brought to town over two miles of rough country. An inquest was held about midnight. The evidence showed tha* deceased had been hrooding over the fact that a Medical (Board had rejected him for service on May 4 last. Deceased had said that he was no uso in this world if he could not go to the war. A verdict was returned that deceased died froih a bullet wound self inflicted while he was suffering from insanity caused through ' rejection for active service,
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 May 1917, Page 3
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131STRANGE SUIICDE. Taranaki Daily News, 12 May 1917, Page 3
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