SUICIDE.
By Telegraph—Press Association. NAPIER, January 3.
Joseph Wooster, aged about 30, employed as night porter at the Caledonian Hotel, committed suicide early this morning. He was found at about 6.30 a.m. in one of the armchairs in the sitting room quite dead with a bullet wound in his forehead, holding a revolver in his right hand and a cigarette in the other. He was a sober, steady and reliable man. His wife lives in Blenheim. There is no family.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3083, 4 January 1909, Page 5
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80SUICIDE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3083, 4 January 1909, Page 5
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