GRAFTON BRIDGE SUICIDE.
! ~ FITS OF DEPRESSION. | INJURED IN AN ACCIDENT. i ' ' | The young man who jumped to his death from the Grafton Bridge on Tuesday afternoon, James Chapman Rule, was 27 years of age and a resident of Roberts ■ Street, Waihi. He was a French polisher in the employ of Messrs. Pattison and Lockmgron, cabinetmakers and upholsterers, with whom he had been for the last five years. When he left the home of his married sister 011 Christmas Eve to spend his holidays in Auckland Rule was in his usual good spirits and nothing had occurred to suggest that he was likely to take his life. It is understood, however, that he suffered from fits of depression which came upon him from tirAe to time as the result, apparently, of an accident about eight years ago, when he was an apprentice in Mr. Thomas Quinlivan's racing stable at Hastings. While at riding work there he was thrown from his mount and dragged some distance with his foot caught in the stirrup iron. The horse kicked him and he sustained a fractured jaw and a broken ear drum.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19214, 31 December 1925, Page 7
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187GRAFTON BRIDGE SUICIDE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19214, 31 December 1925, Page 7
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