ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXII, Issue 848, 2 December 1905, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

SUICIDE AT ALBURY.

A middle-aged man named James FreneJi:, who had been employed for several yean* by Mr E. Jones, at Mount Nessing Station, near Albuir, as gardener, committftl suicide on Thursday morning try cutting his throat with a knife. It appears tram statements made by other hands /sl&epiag in the men's hufc that during Wedn esSay night French was Fuffcring from severe pains in the abdomen. Two of the meo. got np twice, hearing him knocking on the partition of his room, and on the second occasion me of them went to lir Janes's house and got some brandy ginger for him. That was aWut 2.30 a.m. Three hours later he knocked, again, and one of the men going in fond that French, while lying in bed, bad cKt his throat. He was able to speak, ajf3 he said the pain was so bad that it tfSs better to be dead. Others were caUflß,"' and they did what- they conld to staunclh. the wound, and one of the men went oA to Fairlie to fetch Dr Cooke. Tie may* was dead, however, when the doctor adv rived. The body was removed to : the .Albury Hotel, where an inqucsfwas to lie ■held last evening. The dsctiutd tm 8> steadyman, and so far as isknown -Be had no rdaiijres in tie colony; , ; ,„J .