SUICIDE AT NAPIER.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Napier, August 3.
Sergeant Fox committed suicide this morning by swallowing half a pint of carbolic acid. The deceased bad been drinking heavily lately, and went home at an early hour last night in a state of intoxication. Fox had been a sergeant of the 14th Regiment, and was decorated with the Crimean, Turkish, and New Zealand medals. On retiring from the service he was appointed drill instructor to the "Volunteers, afterwards depot master, and lately he was immigration officer, and bad charge of the Refuge under the Charitable Aid Board. He leaves a widow and numerous grown-up family.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 753, 6 August 1886, Page 30
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