HIS OWN HANGMAN.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13664, 31 March 1908, Page 5

HIS OWN HANGMAN.

MURDERER COMMITS SUICIDE ! By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. SYDNEY, March om: Kirk, who is awaiting trial in connection with the Broken Hill murder hanged himself in the cell with the. aid of a blanket. He left a note stating that he had tried to bleed himself to death, but failed. < He had a slight wound on his arm. • [Kirk shot his wife dead at Broken Hill on February 17, and afterwards wounded a man named Hosking. The cause of the tragedy was said to have been jealousy.]