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. SOU, John Herman Surgey, left him ai 1 *.30 o'clock to do some discing work among the vine*. He understood then that his father wa . going to Merbein, but on returning tu the stable at 11.50 o’clock he found hi* father's bicycle there. On looking about he discovered the dead body of bis father, who had -.ho' himself in the head with j rifle.The unforli 'Tjt, alfair was reported ' to the police and the usual enquiry was held on TuevJay morning. Mr«Surgey and Jack Surrey both gave their evidence and Constable J. I Ley Jon d«poaed tliat he found in the vest pocket of the deceased two -dip' of paper ifttlmatina that a letter I.ad been place 3 ir, ;.i-» dcvk. fhis, a belt examined, stated that i* am be»f for -!I th.it he should act a-, he w*5 doing. If lie could have enlisted it would have been better. His wife, be said, had been a «ooi brave wife ~nd jack t good brave son anil brother. lie hoped to tun hi- dear an lom an I trusted hi . brother Herman would soon be oack. that the war woull soon be over and that very-body would be happy again.Mr Surgey. who was a mrive 01 England, wj, j7 year.-, of age.The coroner*! finding was that 1 K.lwin B. Surgey mol bis death by shooting himself, having worri J much over an I since the dc.d!i of his eldest •an in the war at the Dardanelles.Mr Mallhc* *r»kc sympathetically to the widow and -on, assuring them of his personal sympathy and also o! the widespread sympathy of •.filler* and other resident-. He paid a tribute . to (lie departed lather and brother and 1 also expressed bis admiration of tin 1 brave Christian character of Mrs Surgey and the tine manly way in which John Surgey had borne hiinsdl throughout the whole trouble. He charged him to look after and love hi* mother, who was worthy of the be*t that he could Jo for her.The funeral v.ill leave the Hospital to-day at II o’clock.
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Mildura Cultivator
Mildura, Victoria, AU
Wed, Nov 10, 1915
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