A DIVORCED MAN ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION,] Wellington, Monday. Walter Wiltshire Vattse, against whom iiis wife obtained a divorce at the Court this morning, made a determined attempt at suicide this evening by shooting himself. He proceeded to Mr. Maginuity's boardinghouse, where he was lodging, and went up stairs apparently in his usual spirits. Shortly afterwards a, loud report was heard, and on the landlord rushing upstairs hefound Vauselying on the bed partially dressed, and a carbine lying by his side. He then ascertained that Vause had shot himself in the left lung, and the bullet, after passing through the shoulder," blade, stuck just inside the skiia at the back. It is thought that the divorce preyed on his mind. Dr. Rawson, who attended him, holds out very slight hopes of recovery. Vause is about 37 years of age, and is wellknown in Dunedin, where it is said he served a sentence for embezzlement.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6394, 16 May 1882, Page 5
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