SUICIDE OF A MINISTER.
■ : r ' 'HE, LEAVES A NOTE. or TEI.EOItAPH—ritES3 , ASSOCIATION—COETBIOm.. " 1 , ', : ; Sydney, .February 3.' The Rev.' Thomas Bird, a Methodist minister,; has committed suicide in the King's Park. He first swallowed strychnine, and then shot himself. Deceased was a witness boforo the Royal Commission on the Illingworth land scandals. His conncction with the matter arose from his purchasing a property from' Illingworth, on which the latter obtained a loan from the in the name .of Dunning. There was' no suggestion of dishonourable conduct on Bird's 1 part, but the notoriety it brought him into evidently greyed on his mind. Mr. Bird let a note, saying: "For a long time I-'have wished to,die, I'am so disappointed at my own weakness. ' Men do as they like with me with money matters, and my conference, since 1901, has always' opposed.' me." -■ '
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 112, 4 February 1908, Page 7
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140SUICIDE OF A MINISTER. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 112, 4 February 1908, Page 7
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