SUICIDE AT A WIFE’S GRAVE.
The body ot A. W. McKinnon, recently a travelling agent for a Sydney Life Insurance Society, was found lying in the Port Macquarie graveyard beside the grave of his wife, who was killed by a coach accident nearly four years ago. He had been staying at the hotel for several months, and not paying his way the landlady threatened to turn him nut. The body was lying on his stomach with the gun close by, and a forked stick was found alongside, There was a hole in the left side where the shot had entered. The body and face were quite black and almost beyond recognition. The deceased had evidently sat down, and placing the muzzle of the gun against his side after removing his clothing, he discharged the weapon by means of the forked stick which pulled the trigger. McKinnon was a very intelligent and well educated man, and was for 14 years teacher of the Taree Public School, and afterwards for eight years teacher of the Port Macquarie school, which position he resigned about six months after his wife was killed. He leaves a largo family.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2354, 11 August 1887, Page 2
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193SUICIDE AT A WIFE’S GRAVE. Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2354, 11 August 1887, Page 2
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