SUICIDES.
A NEGRO'S TRAGIC END.
By Telegraph —Press Association TAIHAPE, February 14.
The body of a Negro named George Ward, last seen in the bed of the River Ohutu on Wednesday last, fighting the water and wildly shouting, was recovered yesterday, a short distance from where he had last been seen. At the inquest, held to-day, a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned. The body had to be hauled up a cliff over 100 feet high. BLENHEIM, February 14. At Blenheim, the body of Lionel Tuke, auctioneer for Clouston and Co, was found this morning in a grain store on the bank of the Opawa River, with a bullet wound in his head, and a revolver in his hand. He had been dead some hours. Tuke was last seen on Sunday evening, and was a well-known tennis player. He had resided in Blenheim two and a half years.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9719, 15 February 1910, Page 5
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150SUICIDES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9719, 15 February 1910, Page 5
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