FURTHER PARTICULARS.
We.: learn that Water worth has been employed as night watchman at the brewery of Messrs Ehrenfried Bros, up to Saturday last, when he left without assigning any reason. He went to the Clarejriont Hotel last night, asked,for accommodation and was told he .could have it. Having fetched a swag he went to bed, and the landlady fancying she heard some unusual noise at. early morning, called her husband's attention to it, and the latter, on proceeding to'the new lodger's bedroom was horrified at finding the true state of affairs; Water worth apparently in extremis. It is said by some that the- man and hasbeendrinkingheavily for some tjime, that he was suffering from deliriumtfemens when-he attempted self destruction. 'This, again is contradicted by others, who state that* the would-be suicide,, has not been addicted to drink, but that his mind has been praying upon certain, circumstances attendant upon; his brother's leaving the country. This brother was a storekeeper in Pollen-street, Shortland next the? Bendigo Hotel and, it is said, recently levanted for Fiji without paying his debts, and implicating the unfortunate victim in. his defalcations, This ia the most gcuc-
rally assigned cause for the rash act, which is likely to end fatlally.
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Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1677, 19 May 1874, Page 2
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205FURTHER PARTICULARS. Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1677, 19 May 1874, Page 2
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