Suicide by Hanging.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1307, 16 April 1874, Page 2

Suicide by Hanging.

About half-past seven o'clock this mornin the body of Joseph Redshaw, who keeps a tallow and boiling-down establishment off the Mount Roskill Road, Cabbage Tree Swamp, was found hanging by the neck in an out-house. The deceased was seen by his wife a little after daylight, when he appeared to be in his usual health. He had, however, been drinking lately, and was intoxicated last night. After the time when Mrs Renshawsaw him until half-past seven he was not noticed about the place, but at that hour John Redshaw, his son, in company with a man named Ruben Shaw, went into the salt-house, when they found the deceased suspended by a clothes line from one of the rafters quite dead. He had evidenty stood on a barrel four feet high, and, after adjusting the noose, swung himself off. They at once cut down the body, but there was no indication of life. A doctor was, however, sent for immediately. It is stated that the deceased had lately suffered several losses in business, and that he once before attempted suicide in Grey-street by drinking a shilling's worth of laudnum. He was 55 years of age. An inquest on the body will be held at two o'clock to-morrow at the Eden Vine Hotel.