SUICIDE AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 699, 27 December 1909, Page 4

SUICIDE AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

, GRIEVING OVER. A DEAD WIFE.- ■ (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) ■ •',:'',>■■ Rotorua, December 20:'Reginald Lowbridge Biggs attempted to commit suicide yesterday morning.:. He wns fotind-' in the . cemetery at eleven o'clock, with a bullet wound in,his head. ■A :l)ullet had entered just , over the left eye, and made its exit,near-"the right eye. A revolver was found\ near . him. Biggs was found.near the grave.of Mrs. Biggs, who dicd'suddenly.on'Septomber 9 last..' He was removed to the Sanatorium still/alive,- and an operation''may save his .life. .The left eye is much shat- ' tared.. Biggs. has been grioving over - tho loss of; his wife. . .V.^V^ , . \ \ . ; ; '.,;, ■;' DEANK EOTASSIUIi.CYiNIDi: :,;' 1. -'•■!'.•' Auckland, December,2G. ' , Frederick-' Gapes, watchmaker and jeweller, of HU. Street,;, committed sui.aidfe'b'if Friday"By""drilikinjr cyanide of potassium.;. Ho-.nad cyanide of, potasSiuhi in his - workshop, ; Ho, .entered, 'tho slibpV'called'out.•tb'Oiisrwife '-'HcreV luck," and then went and lay dpwn,on tho dining-room sofa,, where his wife found him insensible. 1 He' died utes'i later;!' : :'rho' : vcrdict wafe , that' deceased poisoned himself by' drinking cyanide of. potassium \yliil©". of ~' uneouti3 mind.'- •' .■:'■..'-; \ : \-. ■.:'■} : ' \:"-. ■>■•/:'■.:;;.' ■; SHOT THROUGH :thß ; HEAET|;- : : Dunedln/December 28. ' A inannamod. Alexander Stewart/ 1 '79 years ofnge/coinmittedcuicide.by shooting, himself this'morning. Deceased, who resided near' Anderson's Bay,: appeared to be in his usual health'when ho rose, but after haying breakfast he .went'.to' some trees surrounding the house,' and testing a"gun 6n-tho fork:of,.a tree,'apparently , : .pulled : the trigger,' the- oharge. going, through'his ; heart.' Deceased''had Dfeon complaiuing of' pains .in .his.back for some tinle. 7 '■. ■:.,.-' : "':' ...■■■.■■ -.■; : ' ;, .