SUICIDE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4033, 25 June 1884, Page 3

SUICIDE.

Rkefton, This day. Sigisinund Schulhof, a well-known stationer and tobacconist, of the Broadway, Reefton, committed suicide yesterday by hanging. At breakfast time he kissed his sisters, and bid them good-bye, saying he was going on a journey, and remarked, jocularly as "they thought, that he hoped they would give him a decent funeral. He did not return to dinner, and on searching Lis bedroom, they found, a. letter saying- he had made a will, which was left at the National Bauk. This aroused alarm, and inquiries for him. at all his usual resorts failing to elicit any trace of him, the matter was placed in the hands of the police. At 2.30 p.m. a person passing au empty shop adjoining Schulhof's peeped through the shutters, and saw Schulhof's body hanging against the wall. The door was burst open, and the body cut down, but life was found to be quite extinct. He had planned the deed with great deliberation. His feet nearly reached the floor, and close by was a box off which ho had stepped after adjusting a running loop round his neck. The deceased was in good circumstances financially, and domestic troubles are supposed to have led to the act.