FOUND DEAD.
By Telegraph.—Press Association. THAMES, June 15. The body of a man named Percival Tompkins, a stranger to the Thames, was found amongst scrub on a hill near the town. Tki man was shot through the head. One hand was grasping a loaded revolver, one cartridge of which was empty. Papers in his possession btate that deceased was a tramway driver from Melbourne, who arrived here last month. He enquired the locality of the cemetery. It is evidently a case of suicide.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9116, 16 June 1908, Page 5
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83FOUND DEAD. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9116, 16 June 1908, Page 5
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