SENSATIONAL SUICIDE.
Hl* OWN FUNERAL PYRE.
(By; Telegraph.—Press. Association.)
day.
The "mystery . attaching" "to" £he disappearance, of Mr. J. 11. Gibbons, tutor to Mr. A.' Sutherland,' of Fordell, has been bleared up. Some distance away from the iouse the police foundVa .qua&tity oE smouldering wood, which proved to havo been a funeral pyre, for in the ashes were found the skeleton of a', man ;and the remains of a razor. note which the deceased left in the house he had intv< mated his intention of committing suicide. He indicated that ho would eet fire'to a stack of manuka, throw himself on it, and cut his throat, details being given of the artery he would sever. Deceased added an apology to. the owner, of the manuka for 1 destroying his wood.-: The, stack referred to contained several, corde.; , "
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Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 149, 24 June 1911, Page 5
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