SUICIDES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8883, 20 May 1892, Page 2 (Supplement)

SUICIDES.

A married woman named Wren, aged 44, whose husband is a miner at Lyell, committed suicide at Nelson on Friday, the 6th May. Her two younger children had been sent to school, when the mother, who had been attending tent meetings and was much depressed, went out and bought a rope, and, fixing it to the rafters in a back unoccupied room, hung herself. At tho inquest, on May 7, a verdict of "Temporary insanity caused by religious mania," was returned. Fred Bould, who was discharged from the Auckland Lunatic Asylum recently, committed suicide at Dargaville on May 11 by cutting his throat and gashing his arms. An inqesfc was held on May 12, when the jury, after a short deliberation, brought in a verdict "That deceased committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor whilst in an unsound stato of mind," and added a rider "That in the opinion of the jury the Asylum authorities are blameworthy for having released Bould before ho was thoroughly sane." During the voyage of the Coptic to \\ ellington, which arrived from London on May 4, a steerage passenger for Melbourne, named Samuel Kenkode, committed suicide by cutting his throat, on the 23rd March. A coat found near the Petone Wharf has been identified as that worn by a German named Jolninn George Baldwein, aged 31, who arrived in Wellington about four weeks ago from Germany, via Australia, and who was a fellow passenger of Deeming's in tho Kaiser Wilhelm to Australia. He was in search of employment at Wellington, and having been in a despondent mood it is feared that he has committed suicide.

Captain Strepnerst, of the German barque August Burchard, who has been wandering in his mind for some time, attempted to cut his throat at Lyttelton on the 11th May. Ho inflicted a bad wound, but is now progressing favourably towards recovery. A young man named Alfred Richardson, a bootmaker. Wellington, has committed suicide by hanging. He had been depressed in spirits for some time, and on April 27 was found suspended to a tree in Polhill Gully.