THE SUICIDE AT TE AROHA.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 282, 29 November 1888, Page 8

THE SUICIDE AT TE AROHA.

RIDER OF CENSURE PASSED BY THE JURY.

{FROM OUR OffS CORRESPONDENT.)

» Te Aroha, this day. An inquest was hold yesterday by Mr Ilpbi) > J.P., acting coroner, ou the body of the man, Lincoln, who committed suicide under | the circumstances already stated. A nura- j ber of witnesses were examined. Two little girls deposed to seeing deceased adjust the sack (subsequently found containing a quantity of clay) by means of a rope round his neck and jump off the bridge into the Waihou Paver. Some hands employed at the flax mill, working1 within about 100 or 150 yards distant, deposed to seeing deceased commit the rash act. Only two, however, named Campbell and Aylward, ran to render assistance, the work proceeding at the mill as if nothing had happened". It was stated that the body had been recovered some twenty minutes'after tho deceased sank, and. the ordinary means of restoring animation were persisted in for a considerable time. The proceedings at the inquest were greatly prolonged, in consequence of an adjournment to procure the attendance of the maaager of the flax mill, who had to undergo a severe examination. He admitted being told a few minutes after Lincoln jumped into the river by one of the mill hands of what had occurred, and saw that an employee named Campbell bad gone to the rescue in a punt, bub he merely looked out, and not seeing deceased in the water wont on with "his work as usual, with about *ix other hands, to whom ho stated, he r-aid nothing respect n<; what occurred at the time. Subsequently he saw the dead body broufhb ashore, just on the opposite fids of the river, but did nob stop than. Saw no occasion for so doing. Tho iury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased committed Filicide, and added a "ider as follows :—;_' The .-'aid jurors desire lo express their indignation afc the inhuman indifference displayed by thn persons ai work ac the adjaccent (Imx mill. i,o;'ther eeu-h'ir work nor going to render assistance, save and excepting Ay ward and Campbell, whoso prrnub action'they commend." The proprietor of the mill, Mr Coulthard, was away ut the time of the occurrence.