SUPPOSED SUICIDE.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13507, 29 August 1912, Page 5

SUPPOSED SUICIDE.

Wellington, August 28

At 7.45 a.m tojday, Mr James O'Brien, of Kaiwarawara, found the dead body of Mt Percy Thomas Yarrell in a wharo alongside Mrs Flux's boarding houso, at Kaiwarawara. The deceased is believed to have committed suicide, for his throat was cut, and a- bloodstained razor was lying: on the- floor besid© him. Yarrell. who was last seen alive at 5.45 last evening, was a, surfaceman employed by the Railway Department, and although of steady habits, he had seemed depressed of late He was 33 years of age. There is over £200 in the Post Office Savings Bank to his credit.