Suicide.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12970, 25 September 1905, Page 2

Suicide.

Per Press Association.

' Blenheim; : Sep*. &L * On Saturday afternoon, one of., thtr patients of the- hospital, while* .wandering over the ground's of the institution,, found a few. chains away fr^m tKe" building the body of a man,, Frederick 1 * Gordon! "Williams, 45 years 'of ago. Deceased *' had " apparently shot himself through the head 'with ' a r Revolver, ! which was- lying alongside him. ' He purchased the . revolver^ in town a few days previously, and pvidently committed the fatal act on Thursday, on which , day he left' his home, which is some miles put ;of town, ,c, c saying : 4;ha^,Jhe ? y^W arrange for et itealtn trip' id * Australia. ' t Jn the deceased's pockets were found i asum of money and a Savings Balnk boqk; >ith a" kfa £>7§Z anrl it! is also known' that he was in receipt ; of an insurance annuity of 30s weei^y, and was to draw 1 a policy of £600 in n. few' months. A scrap of paper, /on which ho had* pencilled his 1 tinhio \c[nd" address, waj? also found on hi^" .bprtyV Williams suffered much from insomrpn. HRjiyrdwW^thijhjs br^teiT 1 a te s™\ n<*nV TJlonheim for some 3 r «ars, and was unmarried, He spent 20 years iiij Australia. ' T