KUMARA.
Thursday.
A miner named Peter Skalen committed a determined suicide last bight He placed the muzzle of a gun in his mouth with a string on his big toe, pulled the trigger, and blew the side of his head oft". Eighty pounds was found on the body: It is supposed he was insane.
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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3077, 27 December 1878, Page 2
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54KUMARA. Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3077, 27 December 1878, Page 2
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