SUICIDES WELL-KNOWN FARMER'S ACT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 79, 3 April 1914, Page 7

SUICIDES WELL-KNOWN FARMER'S ACT.

{it TELKGMPH.— PRBSS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, 2nd April. Residents of Oxford were shocked la3t evening on learning that Robert Jas. Gilchrist, ;i well-known farmer living afc Bexley, had committed suicide by shooting himself. Gilchrist was about sixty yeai'd of age and unmarried. He lived /alone on his farm. As one of the Ground Committee of the Oxford A. and P. Association on Tuesday he did his share of the work in preparing the ground for the Oxford show ? but it was noticed that he _ was not in his, usual bright state of mind. Surprise was felt »t his non-appearance at the show yesterday, and, towards afternoon, ' some friends went out to his faun to ascertain the leusou for his absence. There was i no sign of him about the house, and on entering, a party found a note on the table bearing Tuesday's date, and I worded: "1 am oil' my head; memory gone; sad end to life spoilt." The party then searched the farm and it, was not till darkness was setting in -that the body waa_ found in some manuka scrub on v distant part, of the farm I with a gun-shot wound in the head and a gun lying near. ! AN OLD-AGE PENSIONER. (HI TILEOniPII SPECIAL TO THE POST.) FEATHERSTON, This Day. A man named Charles Francis, aged 72 years, who was mis-sod from his home early thib morning, was found at eight o'clock hanging from a beam in the Coronation Baths. Deceased was well known in tho Hutfc district. He watt au old-age pensioner,