SUICIDE AT EKETAHUNA.
A FARMER'S SAD END
An inquest was held at Eketahuna on Friday, before Mr J. A. Ha&well, J.P., touching the, death of Mr Walter Fly, a well-known farmer at Mangaoranga, who committed suicide by shooting himself on Thursday. The evidence showed that he had (been in poor health for some time past," and had suffered much from sleeplessness. Of late he had been given to fretting over trivial things, and Ins condition had caused his wife some anxiety. On Thursday morning, at about 9.30, he took hi 3 gun, and saying he was going to shoot rabbits, disappeared into a gully near the house. Presently Mrs Fly heard the report of a gun. When 10.30 approached and her husband did not come back, Mrs Fly, who knew he had wished to attend a sale at eleven o'clock, went to look for him. Accompanied by her son, a boy of eleven years, she went first to the gully, and at once came upon the body of her husband. He was lying dead, and a gunshot wound, and a string attached to the trigger of the gun, plainly showed what had happened. A verdict that deceased committed suicide while temporarily insane was returned.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10214, 17 April 1911, Page 4
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204SUICIDE AT EKETAHUNA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10214, 17 April 1911, Page 4
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