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Diary of a Ghost Hunter - Ghosts of Q Station Manly - WILLIAM HAY

WHICH WAS IT? SUICIDE OR MURDER??

Here is what the newspapers said...
DRIVEN TO SUICIDE BY ILL-HEALTH. 
 This is from the newspaper article taken from TROVE 

 A magisterial inquiry was held at the Quarantine Station yesterday respecting the death of an employee named William Hay, aged 56, who was found in a flat behind the stables on Wednesday, with a bullet wound in the head, and another in the abdomen. 
He had a revolver clasped in his right hand. A fellow employee slated that the deceased had lately been suffering from bronchitis and asthma, neuralgia in the head, and internal pains. 
When ill he had been heard to say that life was not worth living, and had often asked the effects of certain drugs. 
 He leaves a widow and two children. 
 The Coroner recorded a finding of suicide whilst suffering from ill-health. 



And from: https://www.northheadsanctuaryfoundation.org.au/newsletters/
 “SUICIDE AT NORTH HEAD"
The City Coroner held an inquiry yesterday concerning the death of William Hayes,…
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