SUICIDE AT OPUNAKE.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 January 1922, Page 4

SUICIDE AT OPUNAKE.

TIRED OF LIFE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) The residents were somewhat stirred on Thursday evening by the news that a well known and respected resident (Mr. Geo. Taylor) had been found with his head badly shattered and a shot gun lying alongside the body. A man named Chris Carr, on Wednesday evening found that his whare door had been forced open. Thinking it had been done by stock he did not pay any great attention to the matter. In the morning he found the head of a pick which had been used to force the door operand immediately he thought of burglars. On finding his cash intact, he gave the* matter no further thought. A few hours fater he missed his gun, and made inquiries and went in company with another person to deceased’s house and found Taylor as described above. A note was found on the table written by deceased stating that he was tired of life.

Constable (Houston • was informed, and took charge of affairs. Deceased was about 36 years of age and single. He was an excellent worker anc in a very good financial position. H.j father, sister, and mother pre-deceased him His mother died in the New Plymouth ho.« pital about five months ago. Some six years ago deceased underwent an operation, and on the morning prior k the operation he startled the New Ply mouth hospital staff by bolting from th< institution, the staff following in hot pur suit and re-capturing him in the ground: after a good sprint. He had been peculiai in his manner at times of late, but he wan not considered by his intimate friends to be a case needing watching.

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