Suicide.
Richard Forrest,aged 60, committed suicide yesterday at Invercargill by drinking a lotion (or external application, He died about six hours after takiog the poison. Forrest was a very respectable man, and was formerly a leather merchant in Dunedin, and well to do. Latterly he has fallen into low circumstances, his only means of sustenance being a little oletioal work, which ill-health compelled him to relinquish. He leaveswidow.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1878, 1 September 1886, Page 2
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