WEARY OF THE BATTLE.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3502, 26 June 1884, Page 3

WEARY OF THE BATTLE.

Sigismund Sculholf, a well-known stationer and tobacconist of Broadway, Becfton, committed suicide by hanging, yesterday morning. At breakfast time, he kissed his sisters, and bade them good-bye, saying he was going on a journey, and remarked, jocularly they thought, that he hoped they would give him a decent funeral. He did not return to dinner, and on searching his bedroom they found a letter saying that be bad made a will and left it at the National Bank. This aroused alarm', and on enquiring for him at all his usual resorts, his friends could learn nothing of him. The matter was then placed in the hands of the police. At 2.30 p.m. a person passing an empty shop adjoining Scuiholf’s peeped through the shutters and saw Sculnolf’s body hanging against the wall. The door of shop was burst open and the body cut down, but life was found to be quite extinct. Sculholf had planned the deed with great deliberation. His feet nearly touched the floor, and close by was a box, off which he had stepped after adjusting a running loop round his neck. The deceased was in good circumstances financially, and domestic troubles are supposed to have led to the act.