Hanged, Poisoned, Drowned
[United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph - Copyright.]
.V tLBOURNEj Pec. 9. Becoived 10th } 1.26 am.
Three men committed suicide in the city to-day. One Weir, hanged himself toescape financial worry. 'J he second, Irwin, under the iniinonce of liquor, swallowed laudanum ami strychnine, and the third, Montgmn ry, jumped in’o the Yarra from, lhe bridge. Ho left a letter laying that ho could enduro his wretched life no longer and wanted to see the unknown.
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Southland Times, Issue 18015, 10 December 1902, Page 2
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