SAD OCCURRENCE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1798, 10 July 1913, Page 7

SAD OCCURRENCE.

DEATH OF MB, E. J. LE GROVE. Shortly before I p.m. yesterday Mr. E. J. Le Grove, director of the Le Grove and Lawrence Company, Ltd., typewriter agents, of Lambton Quay, was found dead in one of the rooms above tho firm's premises. About noon two of tho lady clerks employed in the office on the steet level heard sounds resembling the reports of a revolver, but as nothing further eventuated, they imagined that tho sounds had come from the workshop immediately at the rear. Nearly an hour later one. of the mechanics, Mr. Victor Bennett, went upstairs to look for Mr. Le Grove, and finding the door of an apartment locked, he imagined his employer to bo shut in, end looked through tho keyhole. He then saw deceased apparently in a state of collapse in a sitting attitude. He summoned assistance and the door was opened., Mr. Le Grovo wn9 found to be dead—-shot through the right temple, with a revolver with two chambers discharged lying beside him. Two shots had evidently been fired. Dr. M'Evedy was summoned, and pronounced life extinct. Death had been instantaneous.

For some time past deceased had been far from well. His usually bright spirits had deserted him, and he was plainly not himself. It is thought that his condition was attributable to an attack of neurasthenia, from which he had recently been suffering, and, indeed, had been treated for in a private hospital. Mr. Le Grove was an expert shorthand writer, and part of his timo during the session was usually spent in reporting the debates of Parliamentary committees. Ho called at tlie Parliamentary. Buildings in the morning, and ascertaining that th'ero. was nothing doing in his line, went down to the office, on Lamhton Quay. Ho was .there for a time,' speak to anyone. He then' left tho offico and went upstairs. That was tho last that was seen of him. Deceased was very well known, * not only in Wellington, but in other parts of Isow Zealand. He was some 30 years ago on the staff of a Wellington newspaper, subsequently leaving that firm to take u.p Parliamentary work, which he united with the business with which his name has been associated. Ho was a supporter of the late Mr. Seddon, and a worker in tho Liberal-Labour interest in the 'nineties. Deceased, who was 02 years of age. leaves a widow and three sons—Messrs. Herbert, Percy, and Ernest Lc Grove. There will be an inquest.