Shocking Suicide at Foxton.
«■ |BT TII.IQBA.PH.] (From our own Correspondent.) Poxton, This Dat. A horrible case of suioide ooonrred last night, when Henry Bnckendahl, abont teatime, blew his head off. He took a gun, went into his .room, locked the door, and, calling out " Good-bye " to his wife, discharged the weapon by polling a string attached to the trigger fattened to his toe. The man had not been drinking, bat was despondent on account of ill-health. He had no bolief whatever in regard to a future state, and was not in poor circumstances. Buckondahl arrived in the colony with a number of German immigrants some eight years ago, and leaves a wife and a boy aged 14. He has threatened on previous occasions to destroy himself.
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Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 32, 7 February 1884, Page 2
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