SUICIDES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 99, 27 April 1915, Page 7

SUICIDES.

SHOT WITH A PIaTOL. l3y Telegraph.—Tress Association.) CHRItTCriURCH, this day. William Bennett was found with a shot wound in hi= throat and an automatic pistol nearby at Lincoln thie morning. .He was removed to C'-hristchurch Hospital. He ie not expected to live. LABOURER CUTS m≤ THROAT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) •HASTINGS, thie day. Thomas Hopewell, aged 33, a labourer, •who recently arrived here from Dunedin, committed suicide by cutting his tfiroat with a razor laet night. He leav€B a "wife and three children. SUICIDE AT TE AROHA. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) TE AROHA, this day. At 8.30 o'clock last evening George Pereival Bridgman, a middle-aged man on a visit to Te Aroha. shot himself dead with a revolver at a boardinghouse. He had been in ill-health, but gave no indications of ending his life. A young lad sleeping in the next room to Bridgman heard the rpport of a shot, and found Bridgman on the floor and a revolver lying on the bed. Bridgman is stated to have resided for some time in the Kawhia district, but recently had been in Te Awamutu. Ho is supposed to have been in the Public Service. An inquest is to be held to-day. YOUXG MAX'S SUICIDE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) GREYMOUTH, Monday. \ young man named John O'NeiU, unmarried, was -found dead in a bedroom in the Royal Hotel this aftejnnaon. Deceased was ioand lying on the floor, with his throat cut. and a ara&or near the body. He had been depressed lately.