SAD SUICIDE.
■ Of 'I. .. A Wellington Man Snoots Himself. By Telograph.—Press Association). 1 Wellington, Thursday, liobei'fc J. T. Todd, accountant in the Government Insurance Department, committed suicide this morning. He was to leave for Sydney this afternoon on six months leave. Later, ■
Tho news of Todd's suicide caused some sensation. Ho was the officer selected with Mr Kember to enquire into the Public Trustsystcra of bookkeeping during the session. Enquiries were being raado for limi this morning to sign some papers before his departure, and it was ascertained thafrabout 1 p.m, he had blown his brains out at his lodgings at Tborndon, It was believed ho was point' to Sydney to get married,
It was his brother who shot himself in Dunedin in March last, and inexplicable as that suicide was, the present is still moro startling. So far as is known at presont no reason can bo assigned for the deed,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4896, 7 December 1894, Page 2
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152SAD SUICIDE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4896, 7 December 1894, Page 2
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