Melancholy Suicide of a Young Man in Wellington.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1695, 24 July 1875, Page 2

Melancholy Suicide of a Young Man in Wellington.

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THE UNFORTUNATE FELLOW FOUND WITH A PISTOL WOUND IN THE HEAD.

WELLINGTON,

This day. Information was given to the police yesterday morning that a man was lying near the Roman Catholic Cemetery shoo through the head. Oa proceeding to the spot it was found that the person in question was a young man named Edward Walter Church; in the employ of Wilson and Richardson, drapers, Lambton Quay. He was not dead, but evidently severely wounded. The pistol was lying by his side. Dr Harding was in attendance, and had the sufferer removed to the Hospital, where everything possible was done, but no hopes were entertained of his recovery, and at 2 p.m. he died. The ball had entered near the jaw, and had glanced upwards, dividing one of the arteries in the head, but not grazing the skull. It appears that Church, who was a very steady young man, not being at his usual post in the morning, one of his employers sent up to his lodgings, and learned that he had left for business as ÜBual. The next thing heard of him was his discovery as above stated. He is about 20 years of age, and a comparatively recent arrival, having come out by the Hindostan. No reason for the act has been ascertained.