SUICIDES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12615, 18 November 1911, Page 3

SUICIDES.

(Press ♦, Asan.— By. „ Telegraph'— Copyright.) - :• '*■ (Kewfved November -18," 8.5 a.m.) v , , ■■: - ■ N_}W~ YORK, . Novfember ; 17. Rear-Admital J. -V. Taylor, a retired oflic^r,* aged>B2iv committed suicide with a. revolver- in Washington, as- the result of 'despondency, owing to failing 7 health. ■'• . i. , PALMERSTON -N., 1 this -day. V Ex-Detective Lionel Benjamin, well-knowh-in various parts of the Dominion, *.and who -was' stationed at various •times- at Christchurch, Wellington,Wanganui,.. and .Napier, shot himself at his residence last . evening. -He had. apparently .been in normal spirits, and had been busy all • day re-arranging his house. .-Alter,;, dinner :he went to his room and put a revolver bullet into his temple. He, remained alive. at the hospital,;; unconscious, until- after 11 o'clock, when he died. So far no reason is assigned, but ;t was said that Benjamin, who had kept himself in fine' condition by.» physical, culture since, he. left the force some tfive: years iifeo, had suffered recently froni internal, pains. He leaves a-- ; v«-idow * and two sons and ; a stepdaughter. .

•-.. / ,• . WELUiXGTON, last night. . ijErank Oekendeh, an inmate of the Porirua mental hospital, committed suicide to-day by hanging himself in a dormitory. He. was admitted in January, 1902,. to the Mount View asylum, where, he remained until 1910, when he was reirioyed with other patients to Porirua. *