Suicide at Naseby.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 260, 22 September 1874, Page 6

Suicide at Naseby.

On Monday morning last Naseby was startled at an early hour by a report, which spread with rapidity, that Messrs Sargood’s well known traveller, Mr Rollinshaw, had killed himself in the Victoria Hotel stables. It appears that about eight o’clock Mr George’s boy, in one of the stables, heard a curious noise like a gurgling and a retching, as he called it, in an adjoining stable. Going in he observed Rollinshaw on his knees and one arm, with a knife in the other hand. The boy cried out, and his father, who was in the yard, at once came in and took the knife away, laying Rollinshaw on his back, his strength being now gone from the shock received. The boy, in the meanwhile, ran to the doctor’s for help. Dr Dick, who was fortunately in, was on the spot in about a minute, or a little over, and found the blood rushing from the wounds inflicted. The in jured vessels were at once secured, and the haemorrhage stopped. The wounds proved to be of a very serious nature, two severe wounds being on one side of the neck, in a line with the angle of the jaw, a third of a lighter nature but in the same direction of the other, and a deep stab between the false ribs on the left side, aimed apparently at the heart. From the locality selected for the wounds in the throat, immediately in the neighbourhood of the jugular and carotid arteries,, it was the merest chance that saved life, —a chance that a skilled professional hand would hardly have risked in a severe case. The cause of this violent attack upon his own life by a man who, to all appearance, had no care, and if he had, could not make a morbid grievance of it—on the other hand, who had a wife and a young family to live for —is not known, and is almost past conjecture. We understand that, as a traveller and business man, Mr Rollinshaw stood very high in the opinion of his employers, as he did, we know, in that of all those with whom he had to do business. He had arrived on Saturday in Naseby, and had gone quietly about his work as ever he did. Mr Rollinshaw is still in a dangerous and highly critical state. —Mount Ida Chronicle.

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