THE DIXON-STREET SUICIDE.

Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 146, 17 December 1897, Page 5

THE DIXON-STREET S UICIDE.

At the inque?t at the Hospital yesterday ' afternoon touching the suicide of E. A. '' Hughes, who shot himself whilst being ' arrested for the theft of a bicycle, it came i out that in pawning Mr. Herbert's bicycle with Mr. M. Fruhauf the deceased gave his right name and address, and the pawnbroker ■ telephoned the particulars to the police at : once. The witnesses examined were Drs. ' Campbell, Uawson, and Ewart, Mrs. Hen- j demon, L. B. Hughes (brother of deceased), George Cuthbertson, and 11. G. Herbert. The jury, of which Mr. W. J. Scott was i foreman, returned a verdict of Suicide while in a state of Temporary Excitement, and ' added a rider to the effect that no one was ' to blame for the death of deceased. — i An Oatnaru grower of potatoes sent 306 i sacks to Sydney, and his return therefrom i was Is Bd, out of which he has to pay < freight and charges — the rest is profit ! 1 A farmer iix the Maerewhenua district i (Oanraru) has had to turn sheep into '40 i acres of oats, owing to the failure of the . crop through the drought. i Other places than AVellington can show i wind records. November in South Canter- ] bury was remarkable for the number of : nor'-westers. Mr. D. H. Gillingham, of '. Fairlie, registered twenty-one days of nor*- < west weather out of the thirty in the month. J '