A SUICIDE.
INVERCARGILL, June 24. Percy Usherwood, aged twenty-four years and whose parents live at Dunedin, committed suicide by hanging this morning at Waimatuka. He was employed as a farm hand. [A private telegram says that the young man died from heart disease. — Ed. E.S.] -Evening Star, 24/6/1899.
Suicide — Percy Usherwood, aged 24 years, committed suicide by hanging himself at Waimatuku on Saturday. He had been in the employ of Mr F. Boyd for some time, and went out to milk the cows about six o’clock, his body being soon afterwards found by one of his fellow employes hanging from a rafter in the cowshed. It was immediately cut down, but life was extinct. An inquest was held at Waimatuku before Mr J. W. Poynton and a jury of six, who, from the evidence of a number of witnesses, found that the deceased had committed suicide by hanging himself while temporarily insane. -Southland Times, 26/6/1899.
Deaths
USHERWOOD. — On the 24th June (suddenly), at Waimatuku, Southland, Percy Leopold, third son of Henry Usherwood, of Dunedin; aged 25 years. . Deeply regretted.
FUNERAL NOTICE
The Friends of Mr HENRY USHERWOOD (and family) are respectfully invited to attend the Funeral of his late SON PERCY, which will leave his Residence, Queen's Drive road, Royal_Terrace, TO-DAY (WEDNESDAY), 26th June, at 2.30 p.m., for the Northern Cemetery.
A. J. WYNN & HOPE, Undertakers, St. Andrew street. -Otago Daily Times, 28/6/1899.
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