SUICIDE AT DUNEDIN.
AN ENGINE DRIVER SHOOTS HIMSELF.
By Telegraph—Press Association.™ DUNEDIN, December 5.
A few minutes after the arrival at Mosgiel of tne train which left Dunedin at 1.5 p.m., the engine driver, John Major, walked into an outhouse and shot himself through the head. Death was instantaneous. Deceased was about fifty-two years of age, and had been in the railway service for thirty years. Insomnia had troubled him lately, and being unwell, he was relieved of his usual exoress duty and put to much easier work on short journeys. In one of deceased's pockets there was a note containing this message: "Give my watch to Tom McDonnell, my old mate, who looked alter me in my trouble."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3063, 7 December 1908, Page 5
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119SUICIDE AT DUNEDIN. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3063, 7 December 1908, Page 5
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