SHOCKING TRAGEDY.
A Young 2£&a Shoots Eimsolf.
[By Telegraph.]
(United Presa Association.) Wellington, Saturday. Robert Burgess, a young man, son of a duiry farmer, near Johnsonvillo, shot himself through the hepd with a breechloader this u.fining. He had his breafasb with his family at 7 a.m., but retired before it was over, and committed the deed. No cauße for the tragic act is at present known.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3893, 22 August 1891, Page 2
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66SHOCKING TRAGEDY. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3893, 22 August 1891, Page 2
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