Fearful Suicide of an Admiral.

Evening Star, Issue 7484, 31 March 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

Fearful Suicide of an Admiral.

The London papers contain details of the terrible suicide of Admiral Vorsturme at Falmouth. It was noticed that he was depressed in spirits, and it was surmised that he was suffering great disappointment at the loss of a fortune he had expected would have come to him, but which went to a relative. After dining with his wife in the evening he adjourned with her to the drawing-room, and half-an-hour later the servant, heariug groans proceeding from this room, effected an entrance, and found both the admiral and his wife lying on the floor. Mrs Versturme had fainted, and the admiral was holding in his hand a poker which he had made led-hot and then thrust three or four times deep into his bowels. Medical assistance was soon at hand, and the sufferer received every attention, but he died about four o'clock next morning. Before his death he said: "It was on account of tho whisky I did it;" and he presently added: "I commend my body, aoul, and spirit to Christ."