SUICIDES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11800, 1 November 1901, Page 5

SUICIDES.

[BY TELEGRAPH.PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Reeftox, Thursday. A determined suicide occurred here this morning, at five o'clock. A. youth named W. Haubs, employed as cook at Dawson's Hotel, shot himself through the head while leaning over a shaft on the hill behind his residence. There is no clue as to motive. He left a no.te stating his intention to kill himself, and under what circumstances. The body was found in the shaft, as indicated in the note. Gisuorne, Thursday. At the inquest at Tolago on the body oCharles Fry, the evidence showed that, in company with tVo mates, he attended the Gisborne races, and there lost £15 he had earned as a bushfaller, and £6 he had borrowed when the other money was gone. On returning to the bush he became despondent, and developed symptoms of insanity. He expressed a wish to go to his friends in Auckland, and he arranged with his mates to take him to Gisborne to catch the steamer. The horses were made ready and saddled, but one broke away, and the mates went in search of it. During their absence Fry cut his throat with a razor, and was dead when his mates returned. A verdict was returned of death while temporarily insane.