HORRIBLE SUICIDE AT FOXTON.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Thursday. The Post's correspondent wires from Foxton—"A horrible case of suicide occurred last night, when Henry Buckendahl about tea time blew his head off. He took a gun, went into his room, locked the door, and calling out, ' Good-bye ' to his wife, discharged the weapon by pulling a string attached to the trigger and fastened to his toe. The man had not been drinking, but was despondent on account of ill health. He had no belief whatever in regard to a future state, and was not in poor circumstances. Buckendahl arrived in the colony with a number of German immigrants some eight yearß ago. He leaves a wife and a boy aged 14. He had threatened on a previous occasion to destroy himself."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6935, 8 February 1884, Page 5
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132HORRIBLE SUICIDE AT FOXTON. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6935, 8 February 1884, Page 5
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