WISHED TO DIE. METHODIST MINISTER'S SUICIDE.
A DETEEMINED ACT. MIND AFFECTED BY RECENT TROUBLES. By Telegraph.— Presi Asawjatkm.— Copyright. (Received February 3, 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. 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 before the ] Royal Commission on the Illingworth land scandals. His connection wjth tho ttutter arose from his purchasing a property from Illingworth, on which the latter obtained a loan from the Treasury in the name of Dunning. There was no suggestion of dishonourable conduct on Bird's part, but the notoriety it brought him into evidently! pfeyed on his mind. Mr. Bird left a nots, saying — "For a long time I have wished ' to die, I" am so disappointed at my own weakness. Men do as they liko with me with money matters, and my conference, since 1901, has always opposed me."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1908, Page 7
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