SHOCKING SUCIDE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 129, 9 June 1885, Page 2

SHOCKING SUCIDE.

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Constabt.kCo,™ received infor mation& . an early hour this morning that a I named WilUom Bollingham, by 1^ carpenter had committed Su i cide * jnmpmg down a we H in Lincoln-^? 'onsonby. On receiving the inf orna tS the constable called for Dr Kni^k* promptly accompanied him to Bell?ni Wh? house, and found that the bod' & ama drawn out of tho well byseveral n« Ti.beea Dr. Knight's services, hoi v 'r b°Urß--unavailing. The man ™, Slid t* Bcllingham states thai she woke„„ H? morning about two o'clock T mLe§ husband from her sido, also fromtha ™ r ss'-a r-s»s si? backdoor was partly open and mTi i. 6 around she missed sovemlpot plants°^? had been placed on the well lid n> h down over the top. but mC, oxamiantion, she found thn T had been |3rawn out. Her h V# conduct had previously been Mdfl trio, and she at onco L^ that he had jumped down thT'S Sho at onco callod her «S L L bours in tho next house, ana, aS by two men, tho body wan k. i by,^ap P lin g 'iron, # ™& °"g body, Dr. Knight found a out on th*Vu breast, 2in. in depth and ljlnf ftS? apparently dono with a knife orchisai ?! J it was surmised that he might Wei tempted suicido with some sbarn Ztt ment before leaping into the We ll^ bT"' knife has been found near the stai n«i lingham is about 35 yoars of ace wi leaves a widow and two children The unf tunate man met witli a severe accident uL or three years ago, and received an mm™ in the head Of tato he has been depS and melancholy, and exhibited some emT tricity of conduct. Dr. Philson ishoMin» an inquest on the body at PonSonbv H»ii this afternoon, ■■■'SS1