Suicide In Wairarapa.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 142, 23 May 1883, Page 3

Suicide In Wairarapa.

■ • ■ . SROGKIjn G" DiaOOVEK^. I l Ole. Jenaon, ,who discovered the man Neilfi r ! 'ilad^h iii :: a whare 'on Mr Moore's p?operry,7Ayest Taratahi, with , 'his^'thi&'ai ctiti gives thefbllbwing particulars regarding the affair : — '• Nci's Madsen came tp-Gaiterton last Wednea- ,j me to come up and work ' for<hun, f aßvbje, had: -a contract to fall bush for Mr Moore near the Waingawa junction, j promised that I would come onu Friday if I could get away— '-if sot, on Saturday ; but it a^waned-^o-hard that I-^could not gd"tin'til Monday, afternoon. I left Carterjton ot^' hdrkebkeki' said' got there ajt", afepat 6.80 o'oJockToii Monday evening. I went .'straight to the whare and | knocked at the door three times. As '3 foere^as no answer I want to the window/ pushed it open,! and got '-inside. I gMadsen . Jying .on t the.j J(gpr. Thinking ne was "asleep, 1 shoot him and called Him ' hy name three timed, whefl;l ttuddenly .discovered blood ofa the floor. . tfpon examining him J fjund his throat ' was cut from ear tb eir. I then left the house and rode back to Ca'rterton and informed the police of what I had seen. Constable Darby, Madsen's brother and myself, went back to the whare and found him *- Just as Fhad left him;-^W© ; fo^ii .i---table knife closc-tO-JMadsen, smeared - with blood.'* At the inquest, the jury ..found, that deceased committed suicide . .While m a state i of insanity, /,/ j ; ;