DETERMINED SUICIDE

Taranaki Daily News, 14 December 1920, Page 5

DETERMINED SUICIDE

BY THORN'S EMPLOYER. 33jr T»!eerflph.—Press Association. . Auckland, Dee. 13, ' James Granville was founddwtjt in Lied at his farm Glen Murray on fs*)tnr- ' day night. His death was from afeuu*" 1 shot wound and the gun was alongside the bodv. , t < U*F It now appears clear that OraiirtlTj' l committed suicide, that he got intopbed, lied one end of a piece of eottoji to the trigger of a double-bamiWl {gun and the other end to his right footji the muzzle of (lie gun resting in hie mj&uth when the trigger was pulled. It is now btated that Granville wa« married, his wife residing in Nelson. Thorn worked for Granville after leaving Eyre's farm, for six weeks bv fore the murder occurred. Granville was an important witness at Thorn'! trial on the question as to the identity - I of otic of his horses.

Granville left a letter addressed tt oh solicitor. Financial difficulties art said to have been the cause of his «si< cide. Ho had also been drhfjdgj heavily.

Mr. Singor, counsel for Thorn, brought the fact of Granville's suicide under th< notice of the Executive Council, waiei) meets here to-day to consider the &en> tenee passed on TJiom.

DECEASED EX-WAITARA RESIDENT

Auckland, Last Night. J' (Special Correspondent.) '" .lames Granville, who waa found ahoj nt (31en Murray, once owned a cordia) factory at Waitara. He has relative! at Mangamingi.