SUICIDE BY HANGING.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 12016, 18 October 1904, Page 5

SUICIDE BY HANGING.

, (PHK33 ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.) i ..AUCKLAND, October 17 V > Thobas Cross, a single, nranj tbirty-fonr '' years old."■who recently arrived from Bom- ; hay, - where ho was engaged in farming,. '• banged himself in a bedroom of the Edin- '. burgh Castle Hotel last t night. He was j * found suspended fronv a., hook behind the j I door by a nooee-of linen and twine. .Some I months ago he /was kicked by a horse in Australia. • ■ ' ': ..-'.■. ; WELLINGTON, October 17. * Sidney Wei by, fifteen years, was ; drowned in the Wangaehu river on Satur- ~ j day. The lad. was waahed off his horso j ' into the river. . '" -,' j t Williiim Koberts, who was working by t> himself on a road in the Martinboroujgh district, is supposed to have been ,buried c by a landslip. Rescue parties are at /work. t Keporte from the came district etate that a man named McLaren was drowned in I tfie Pahaoa river on Saturday. ■ ' *■ ■■• ■ i, ; A Frenchman named Chardaevoine was * admitted to the hospital this evening , iruf- * fexing from the effects of a. self-inflicted revolver* wound in the bead. His condition is serious. GISBORNE, October 17. A man named Cabill, who hae reached \ j tih<? hospital from Motu with a broken leg, i t }<ad bwu employed eplitting timber, and j » was pinned -under a log for five hours b?- ---* fore being discovered. He is now doing j } veil. .-• " , i