Mr W. D. Murison, J. P., Deputy-Coroner, held an inquiry yesterday at the Hospital, touching the death of Robert Anderson. The wife of the deceased paid that her husband had been away for some years and had only recently returned. On Sunday afternoon she went out, leaving him in bed. When she came back she found him sitting in the kitchen fireplace with a gun between his knees. He was dead. He had been very low-spirited, and had told her that he had taken more drink from the time he left Nelson to come to Dunedin than he had during all the years he had been away. Evidence was given to show that the deceased had been affected mentally, and Dr Alexander detailed the results of a post mortem examination. He had found a gunshot wound below the chin. The wound could only have been inflicted by the deceased's own hand. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased committed suicide while labouring under temporary insanity. -Otago Daily Times, 16/9/1868.
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