THE PARNELL SUICIDE.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 157, 4 July 1888, Page 3

THE PARNELL SUICIDE.

T HE INQUEST.

mowing evidence was taken after we f0l°!^ 3 yesterday, at the coronial *ent *So cause cf death of William inq „iry m 2 was fou „d lying dead at the Parnell, about n oon on Sunda^ ," t e d as coronor, and SerPr.Pbilson 0*c£nted the police *"* GaD?S nee of the first witness Ernest B (The cv«m n™." tOl . day ' s issue.] Bo»l d«i rev £& the Permanent James Oonley.g j- 0 _ fc R es olution, MWjtast witness drawing his &03ed 1° i body of deceased. It was oVdownS in the water about lying face clownw rocl ___ i t Bet from the cage and 5 P"lled S? Sf nf two men landed it on ;tbe rocks- TI»0» bo dy was fully clothed •gtiffandcold. which was bare. *Wim*J I "mall bullet wound in There was I ■ forehead The the tent™ JJ d waß blackened orifice of «"» The WO und was about itb *c P^'ch in diameter. The skin M»a^°\ a e D" was torn off. There was rfti» Bft ?he rig ht side of, the fore'■>*,de?«the man hid fallen on something *#"!£ man must have been dead sharp. .I*® » Witness sent for ConIfiveorsix hour* • d a b oll t noon and ffifeff^/Jhrbody. He saw the '■took u^rch the body, and take from tonoteb te earen v notes> half the pocket ftve g Beforo the sovereign, ana, Dicked up a re . >3DBtßb' if Si about two yards from -oheronthe, rwg fa water- Ther e iWl^SffiSjeiiithe revolver. It ; waß one empty oJ^ l| od . fc The salt .wasrUl ty/he!ni over the spot where the Water bad W» uv W j tness had no t heard weapon *«JSJ wvolver. Witness could W lT SSfcnd down the beach not : trace iootmal^^ He could also see bloo dcnthe °X n He conc i uded lc^ htt rasK been fired at low WW?K thought that deiwftto. ',L have shot himself, as M To sgns of a struggle. Theman ihad not Wien bf c seen the man. teSSSSsobso" deposed to 1 °. oD fl a nf the body and removing it ■taking charge of the way .^ rf S EST'' Hehad me g t him somewhere the deceaaea, « h _ fcrousers > poc . in town some time aga, dmatchb tnerewßio W ound on the fore&&»S?of the brain A StdSrgeifromtherevolverproducea |bqU?!rfT&t to cause the wound in aSfiLISEd/ He believed the tSSlt&cted. Heshould SKman muaChavebeen dead from 10 Bffi before the body was discovered murdered ana Town over the cliff, as the body was 40 Sirom theldgeorttfe cliff. He ap--Kd to have stood with his back to the Sr and shot himself. ' . Sergeant Andrew Clark deposed that owing to inquiries made by himself he had fincceked^getting the deceased identified LSmMoMilto. Hismotherandfour eiflters resided in Charlotte-street Eden Terrace district. The four sisters had seen Wdid.ntitedth9body. The deceased had .three brothers at present out of Auckland. ■Witneßs'iiwlmid-'a searching inquiry as lift the deceased'- movements for the |lta|,iew,weeks.' He had been unable .'to'"find bat anything about him cx•cept Mb for about sit weeks he lodged ,wii Mr. M__roiiß in Wakefield-street. piSfl .ten he( had been to the Thames, and .wsssnppb&d to have returned via Waikato (lait^atsdiiy. He was seen at that time JSyja M*-Stewart, who had since left for ■Wiupt-."'' -"•'"'' ":' 1 Miss Idly McMillan deposed that she was theeisterof,tho deceased; ' She was well N able to identify the body as that of her .rbthet1, William McMillan, who was a labbirefj and Was 25 years of age. He #_b tern _t Mangawai. The Thames was hislSpt place of abode; Witness last saw him alive in Auckland last March, when he itfasln good health. He stayed with her mother in Auckland about three weeks, and thtowent'to the Thames. He wrote regularlyrthe last letter being sent about a lbonth ago. He was very very sober and steady in«his habits, and' was unmarried. 'He^as nob-low-spirited. Witness and her mote wete not aware that he was in Abbklaidj add 'could riot state when he came up. She had no idea what had (Sito-ed him to wmmit the act, as he was _ot.given.to drick; neither was he in want of money. ' 1 The Cdroner asked if the deceased was tt'llftfc.-' ':)":;■:•■:.- Witness' i-eplied that there was one lady that she bfelieved Her brother cared for. \ Serjeant GSthblehereinterposed. He said mat the police were awaroof the facts of this case, bub thoy had nothing to connect the teased with the lady. It was known that.he had been attached to a certain lady, but as she UM-now' been -married three months, it was.a question as to whether it was : neces?ary that her name should be broifght into the Blatter, seeing that tol|ng-definite was known. DtPl.il.Jofr ruled that it was notrequiStHSP 9 farther on that Po^. a decisw^hiW. waif incurred in by the jury. _m& .^ctaded the evidence, and »Yity, after ra'. little consideration, rtK- 8,*6^ 6 that the deceased was JSf dead with a bullet wound in his S^ttPPO&d; to have been inflicted The-cabaeof death therefore still remains S^f^ry.asDo evidence of the S^Ife6Kßed Prior to having the ' S9^^ be obtained. 1?. the,"points at which the police $$$*! the .^inquiry may contain the ™Wpfol the thysteiy. Thelady to whom ■*___#_ ■ 8^ afc^ched was, it appears, ?*ftt>oont- last March, and according SW evidence that was the time 21t ¥» Auckland for the Thames. mSS_. Il bfching has transpired as to his w»TOetft» dr the state of his mind.