AN OFFICER'S SUICIDE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXI, Issue LXII, 15 July 1911, Page 10

AN OFFICER'S SUICIDE.

SEQUEL TO A NOTICE IN THE GAZETTE. '

>> Depression through being gazetted &■ out 01 tne Special Reserve on account ■? ©I ill-health and nervousness at the ■' prospect of having to undergo an opera- , tion, were advanced at tne inquest at i, Westminster recently as explanations * of tne suicide of Captain Cnarles .basa jV" Bonnyman, late of the 3rd (.Reserve; | baituiion Du&e of Cornwall's Light j&,1 latently. p1- Captain Bonnyman, wlio was only 29

•*, yearb oi age, took cyaniae ot putas- | ■5' «ium in iiyae Park. His brothei, Mr-; *' ibi. W. jjonnyman, of 10, iirom^ton! Square, W., said that about tnree j f t weeks ago Captain Uonnyman was tola jj o that he would have to leave the Army f° service on account of ill-nealth, and he jp iiad. appealed against the decision. He' |> was uader treitcment m hospital about J t^ tnree months ago for a Jaaney com- | fxlamt, and had undergone an opera|i taon. Ho had been depressed ana upset at the prospect oi another operaUfr tion,« and at naving to leave the p t bp^ual reserve. ijfJ Colonel Cliaries Dudley Carlton Smith |,' {CoiontJi of tne xUJserve of Oiiicers), who '& had been a personal friend of Captain h iionnyman lor ten years, sai dthatwhen it was announced in the London $£0. trazette that Captain Bonnyman had ff?" jehnquished his position in the Special j §s J^eseivehe became very much depressed, j (s thinking that his relations and friends j|MCtoiAutl nay e tne impression tnat"feliniv Squished" meant tiiat he wag ujjftt pn viL-coi.nt of ill-health, and that his friends might think that he had been transIk* ferred, Colonel Carlton Smith added that he p knew Captain Bonnyman,. under aU con/ $' ditions—in active 'serwei" m South:'■> lf^ 4 Air4ca } and fj6m that time Very inti-] inateiy. Captain JSoanyman was afraid t of another operation, and the1 fact of ti* io^ll^ nis position, coupled with his j*V, iU-health, worried him a great deal. . The jury returned a verdict of '.'Sui«»de during temporary insanity."