SUICIDE IN WELLINGTON

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1700, 1 November 1887, Page 2

SUICIDE IN WELLINGTON

Wellington, October 31. Ghas. Taylor Upbam, a clerk aged about 2 \, shot himself dead this evening I with a carbine. The cause is believed to be monetary troubles. Latbh. A painful oaie of suicide occurred jast before 6 this evening. Late In the afternoon Mr Olapham received a note at the Government Buildinps from Charles Taylor Upturn, a youth of 21. saying hU life was a reproach to him, and a burden to others, and he was going to shoot himself on the hills. Mr Olapham obtained Detective Walker's help, and the two icoored the hills behind the Tinakorl road where he lived without finding any trace of the young fellow. Upham, who was a olerk m the A.M P , was known to be of an exoltabie disposition, and of rather weak intellcot, a failing from which several of the family suffered. This, and the fact that he had left an o her note of Similar import addressed to his mother, justified the anxiety felt on his behalf, The searoh party returned towards the house after their vain search, and caught sight of the lad going m at the gate. They set cff at a ran, but immediately after a report showed tbey were too late, and the detective arrived only m time to find that Upham had blown <ff the side of his face with a carbine. Bt died at onoe. The oarbine had been bor. rowed from a neighbor. On the body was a sheet of paper with several notes m pencil, one of which shewed that he had actually been on the hills. Another said, **I have killed myself owing to money troubles. " A letter addressed to Olaphara was lying m his building two hours before he reoeived it, or probably the sad affair would have been prevented.