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Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3550, 13 February 1886, Page 2

A Ghastly Suicidk.— The Brisbane correspondent of the Australasian writes :— A very remarkable suicide occurred here last week. A man named Reardon went into the Botanical-gardens wilh a revolver m his pocket, and apparently a determination to kill himself. He selected a spot on tho slope near tho caretaker's cottage, a favorite resort of children and their nurses who frequent the gardens. Selecting a time— the dinner hour — when the gardens are empty,' ho prepared for death. . First he scored a deep cross m tho sandy bare ground under a small native bush, and then kneeling so as to fall over it, he put the pistol to his chest and fired. The wound was not immediately fatal, for he missed the heart, which he evidently hoped to pierce. 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