Suicide at Newmarket.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXIII, Issue 3539, 25 July 1907, Page 2

Suicide at Newmarket.

MAN HANGS HIMSELF. (By Telegraph—Press Association). Auckland, Last Night. About a quarter to one o’clock this afternoon a gruesome discovery was made by some schoolchildren at Newmarket. A number of the boys were playing in a reserve at the rear of the public school, when one of them noticed a man’s body swinging from a tree in a secluded corner. They immediately alarmed Mr Ohlsen, the schoolmaster, w T ho cut down the body, which was, however, quite stiff and cold, and had evidently been hanging from the limb for some time, probably since last night. It was subsequently identified as the body 6f James Paul Huckstep, a single man of about forty years, w’ho resided at the Newmarket boardinghouse. Huckstep, who w r as a labourer, was last seen alive, as far as is at present known, by a young fellow named Dunn, who spoke to him about six o’clock last evening, noticing nothing particularly abnormal about the dead man’s manner. He did not turn up at the usual meal time last evening, having left the boarding-house for the last time somewhere about midday yesterday. Nothing has yet been advanced for the reason of the rash act. The police were communicated with immediately, and the body was conveyed to the morgue to await an inquest.