ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
INQUEST ON MAYHEW. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Oamaru, Last Night. An inquefit on the body of Onslow John William Mayhew, whose body was found in the scrub on the south bank of the Kakanui River, and for whose arrest a warrant had been issued for the murder of George Swan Burke, at GemmelPs Crossing, was held this afternoon, before the district coroner, Mr. .1. R. Bartholomew, S.M. After the medical testimony had been taken, and evidence of identification heard, the coroner said that deceased wafj evidently acting under a homicidal impulse, but apart from any inference which was to bo drawn ftom the tragic events and unnatural nature of the acts, there was no definite evidence of mental alienation. He found that deceased committed suicide by shooting himself on or about April 14, 1918.
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Taranaki Daily News, 31 July 1918, Page 4
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135ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Taranaki Daily News, 31 July 1918, Page 4
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