FOUND DEAD
RESIDENT OF MARTINBOROUGH. INDICATIONS OF SUICIDE. (“Times-Age” Special.) A well-known resident of Martinborough, Mr George Edward Hall, was found dead at his home this morning with a pea rifle lying across his chest, the indications pointing to suicide. The late Mr Hall, who saw service in the last war, visited Messrs Pain and Kershaw’s store this morning at 8.20 and purchased a paeket of .22 cartridges. It is stated that he talked for a while, quite normally, with the manager. Mr Hall returned home and at about 8.50, Mr Seymour Brice, who was , in the house, heard a noise in a back room. Upon investigating, he found Mr Hall lying on the floor, with a wound in his mouth and a pea rifle lying across his chest. ’ The police were notified and after a doctor had pronounced life to be extinct the body was removed to the morgue.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 September 1940, Page 4
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150FOUND DEAD Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 September 1940, Page 4
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