REPORTED SUICIDE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 27, 1 August 1911, Page 7

REPORTED SUICIDE.

MAN f OUND IN EDINBURGH". TERRACE. Early this morning a. man, who hasbeen" identified as John Lawrence, An exemploye© in the Telegraph Stores, was reported to have cut his throat with a. penknife in Edinbwgh.terrace. He died shortly after. At about 4.30 a.m. Thomas David j Bryant, an expressman residing at No. 47 Edinburgh-temice, heard someone moaning outside his -window. He went ! out and diecovered a man lying alongside the fence on his back, with a severe gash in his throat, and covered with blood. The man wa« alive, but unable to speak t Bryant immediately sought communication with the police, and when he returned, about twenty minutes later, the stranger was dead. Sergeant Mathesoft and Constable Goes arrived about 5.20, and removed tie body to the morgue. Enquiries made by the police go to show that deceased was seem and spoken to- by Alexander Russell, a dairyman, at 4.16 p.m. or thereabouts. The matt asked Russell to direct him to a place in Boulcott-street, where he said he resided. Russell directed him, and he went &w&y, According to Russell's story, deceased appeared not to be in his right senses, but as he went in the direction of Boulc&tt-street, he (R,uesell) did not consider further interference on. his part called for. , Search was made in the immediate locality by Constable Willett, who found a double-bladed pocketknife, with the small blade— a very keen edge— open, and besmeared with blood. The .wound inflicted in the throat was s. very severe one. Lawrence left the stores about three or four" months since.