SUICIDE IN WELLINGTON.
By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, August 26. The police authorities received information this morning that a man, apparently in a fit, wps lying on the beach at Magazine Foint, Oriental Bay. On Constable Hood going out about 10.0 o'clock he t'ouund the body of a man, face downwards, on the sand, with blood oozing from the mouth, a bullet wound in the left breast, and a revolver at the feet. One chamber of the revolver had been discharged. Dr Henry was sent for, and en arrival he pronounced life to be extinct,. The body, which was that of a man forty, and respectably clothed, was conveyed to the morgue. From papers found on the body it appears that the man's name is Andrew Petterson, and that ho is a recent arrival from America, as letters addressed to that name, Chicago, U.S.A., were found in the pockets. The deceased has a brother, a boarding house-keeper, in Haweia.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9176, 27 August 1908, Page 5
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158SUICIDE IN WELLINGTON. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9176, 27 August 1908, Page 5
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