SUICIDE.
OF A STATION HAND. (By Telegraph — Press Association.) HASTINGS, Last Night. George Richard Martin Wilson, aged 36, a married man, a station hand employed at Te Mata, committed suicide at an early hour on Saturday morning. He had been complaining lately of pains in the head, and rose at 3 o'clock on Saturday morning, and borrowed a gun from another station' hand, saying he was going to shoot cats. A few moments later his wife heard a report from the gun and found deceased lying on the kitchen floor, with his head shattered. At the inquest a verdict of death from a gunshot wound, selfinflicted, was returned.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 14 July 1913, Page 5
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108SUICIDE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 14 July 1913, Page 5
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