SUICIDE AT SOUTH DUNEDIN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13812, 28 January 1907, Page 4 (Supplement)

SUICIDE AT SOUTH DUNEDIN.

A young man named Robert Ingram Stewart, aged 21 years, residing with his parents at 75 Oxford street, South Dunedin, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head with a revolver on the 9th inst. It is presumed that the deed was committed about 11.15 p.m., for a neighbour then heard a shot fired, though he paid no attention to it. The young man was last seen alive about 11 o'clock on Tuesday night, when hid brother left him in the kitchen of the house to retire to bed.. The brother awoke at 4.30 a.m. on the 9th, and found that the deceased had not gone to bod, and on making a search saw him lying quite dead in the backvard. fully dressed, with a bullet wound in his head above the right ear, a loaded revolver, with ono chamber disohf rged, lying at his side, agd his iiead

resting- in a small pool of blood. Deceased was some time ago employed aa a blacksmith's striker at Reid and Gray's foundry, but for tho past three months had been out of work. - He had suffered for about two yoare from extreme mental depression. The deceased left a letter to his parenta and the members of his family, in which he said: "Extremely sorry, but could not help it. Was overcome with depression. You have done aJI you can for me." Tho deceased had on a previous occasion made a statement to the effect that he would do away with himself by shooting if he could not get rid of his trouble.