DETERMINED SUICIDE

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 19962, 16 December 1913, Page 4

DETERMINED SUICIDE

(Per Press Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 15

A man named Owen Stace, a carrier, who resided wit.li his wife and family at 48 Randolph Street Woolston, committed suleids yesterday morning by hanging himsel from a tree in the Domain. He left his home on horseback at seven o'clock yesterday morning after telling his wife that he would"' be back in an hour for breakfast. Ho did not return, but his son, Owen William Stp.ce.. when returning home about four o'clock in they afternoon from shooting, found his father's horse straying c:i tire- read near the racecourse at Bunvood. The horse had no bridle on but was hobbled with a rope. Thinking that the horse had run away, he took charge of it and returned. When h\<s father did not return home last night, the police were informed. Constable Rowe started to search the- new Brighton Domain and at 8 this ,morning he fc-u™'l Ower.'s body hanging from a. tree. The suicide was a. most determined n?.o, The Tr<a-u had doubled tho bridle round his "neck, which was broken by a drop of six feet. When found tho body was hanging n.lwrnt 25 i'eet above the crrc-und. Constable Row« fut tho l)ody down and had it removed to the city -morgue, where an inquest was bold tin's afternoon. After hearing the- evidence tho coroner returned a vordict th.nt tlie- deceased committed snir.'cle by hansing himself whilst in a state of unsound mind.