SUICIDE.
Dunkdin, This day
A man named Thos. Hudson Maokrill Avas found dead in bed at the Coffee Palace on Saturday night at 5.30 o'clock. He Avas in his night-shirt under the bedclothes, and had a revolver firmly clasped in his right hand. It Avas found that he had shot himself through tho mouth. He had been dead, it is conjectured, for at least fourteen hours. He had been drinking heavily since the Oth instant, and although he Avas a boarder at the Coffee Palace he had not slept there except on two nights. Ho Avas last seen at the Baldwin Hotel, only a hundred yards from tho Coffee Palace, on Friday night about 5.30. He Avas then sober, but had a strange look about him. He Avas not seen to enter tho Coffee Palace, but at about 9.30 on Friday night tho house-Avife heard a noise from his bedroom, and it it believed this Avas the noise of the shot. He had been for nine months on board the Avhaler Splendid, but little else isknoAvn about him. An auctioneer's license issued at Chelmsford, England, was found in his pocket, and a £10-note Avas found in a box in his room. The body Avas taken to tho morgue.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4085, 25 August 1884, Page 3
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208SUICIDE. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4085, 25 August 1884, Page 3
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