EXAMINATION WORRY.
CAUSE OF A SUICIDE. [bt telegraph.—press association.] Ohkisxohukch, Friday. Worrying over an examination is said to have been the cause of the suicide of Wit Ham Wadham last evening. Deceased, who -was employed as a storeman at the Chief Post Office, was last seen alive at about - five o'clock last evening. This morning at * tea o'clock he was found in the post office dead. By his side was a revolver containing' three loaded cartridges and an exploded one. From what can be ascertained, deceased i Shot himself in. the month on the top . storey by the mouth of the lift, and then fell three storeys to the bottom of the lift, catting his head and chin in the fall. Ho apparently had placed a small wire rope round his neck' prior to the firing of the chofc, as a small piece of the rope was under bis body, a»d the other part was attached to the top of the lift. . . ■ _-...." -' Deceased appeared to have been in his ... usual beaJtb, but had been worrying about an rimt imiinm f ami be had been talking lather loofiahly, saying funny feeling* were going cW- him, lie bad also mentioned • committing suicide, but his fellow «m- ---,;,: ::&«• took litUa aotjet tf bi§ remark.. : & ■' ' ' ' : '- V *■■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15252, 15 March 1913, Page 8
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