FOUND DEAD.
BY TELEGRAPH- —PRESS ASSOCIATION. INVERCARGILL, July 29. A man named James Hancock, who wa3 in the habit of sleeping alone in a t'uit at Kapnlcu, where he worked, having intorest in a flaxmill, was found dead in his bed this morn • iner, with the top of his head blown off an i a double-barrel 2d gun beside him. Ihe man had suffered from hip disease, and it is understood that he had recently had a depressing report from the doctor. The deceased, who was about 33 years of age, had invented and made an electric weed eradicator, and had just completed a successful trial of it. The police are making enquiries.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9154, 30 July 1908, Page 5
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113FOUND DEAD. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9154, 30 July 1908, Page 5
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