DETERMINED SUICIDE.
Mad Act of a Dunedin Lawyer.
(by telegraph. -t-press association.)
Dunedin, Wednesday. Mr E. S. Hay, a well-known solicitor, committed suicide this afternoon by cutting his throat. The suicide appears to have been of a most determined character. He was living with his sister, who left him in the house. On returning, she found that he had taken a basin to hold the blood, and then hacked away at his throat with a blunt knife, the basin being- full of blood. He appears' then to have gone to a bath-room, where the bath was found with blood and water mixed. Tho sister at once procured medical aid, and though when the doctor arrived he was pulseless, he tore away at the wound with his' nails. He died shortly afterwards. Ho was a single man, and had been indulging rather freely. It is supposed ho committed the rash act while suffering under some strange dolueion.
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Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 93, 21 April 1887, Page 5
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