DETERMINED SUICIDE.
A HAIRDRESSER SHOOTS HIMSELF.
Early on June 23 Mr Alexis Gaeth, the proprietor of the American Hairdressing Saloon, Queen-street wharf, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head with a revolver. His dead body was discovered in the public lavatory attached to the Auckland Kailway Station between twelve and one o'clock by one of Mr J. J. Craig's employees.
It is stated that Gaeth had been drinking1 heavily for some time past, and that he appeared a little peculiar when he had drink.
Gaeth was a German by birth, and a man about 49 years of age. He leaves a wife and six or seven children, who reside in Leighton-street, Ponsonby. He had been about seventeen years in Auckland.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 158, 6 July 1899, Page 8
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