A SENSATIONAL SUICIDE.
Frank Hayes, who committed suicide in Anglesea street, Auckland, recently, performed the shocking deed in a most sensational manner. Ho fixed a gun to a table near his bed in such a way that it was automatically fired, a candle burning a piece of string and thus releasing two weights which had kept the triggers fixed. Having arranged the contrivance he lay down with the muzzle of the gun pointing directly to his head, and took chloroform, so that he was insensible when the candle burnt to the string and tho gun was fired, blowing the top of his head off. No report of firearms was heard, and when the body was discovered yesterdayjthe man had been dead about a week, the body being in an advanced stage of decomposition.
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Evening Star, Issue 8775, 16 March 1892, Page 3
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133A SENSATIONAL SUICIDE. Evening Star, Issue 8775, 16 March 1892, Page 3
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