ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1168, 18 July 1884, Page 3

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.

A deliberate attempt w.is made by a fashionably-dressed and r.;spectab!y-oon-neeted young maa named named Herbert W. Elwes, the secret ay of the Wncannia Racing.Cluh. shortly after 4 o’clock on the afternoon of the 23 d ult., to commit s 1 icicle in a railway carriage whilst travelling between Essendon and the Spencer stree. station. It appears that, Klwos, who was a lawyer’s clerk at Wtlcannia, IXew South Wales, arrived iu Melbourne about a month ago on a holiday, and put up at Scott’s Hotel, Collins street west. For a time he lived a fast life, and on getting abort of fundsw-nt to resile with hissister-in law, Mrs V/ilmnre, tho licensee of the Silver Gate Hotel, Clarendon st'eet, Sou hj Melbourne, whom he i duc»d c few days ago to cash a cheque for LI 7 IDs on a New South Wales bank, which cm being presented, proved to he entirely valueless. He subsequently absented himself from the hotel, and a warrant was issued for his apprehension on a charge of obtaining money by means of fa'so representations. During the evening he was released from custody on a bail bond of Lsl) He did not answer to his bail when his name was called, and a warrant was issued for his apprehension. Short'y after tho ordinary passenger train which leaves Ess n lon for Melbourne at five minutes past 4 o'clock had got clear of the station the same day. the guard heard a report of firearms in the train, and on arriving at Ascotvale a search was made through the carriages. After going through several carriages Elwes was found lying partly on the seat and par- ly on the floor of a first-class compartment, and a quantity of blood was flowing from a wound in his left breast. A full-sized six-chamber bull-dog revolver was lying on the seat, where it had jnst fallen from the hand of the would-be suicide, whose clothes were disarranged to some extent, and hesmevred with blood. Tnere was no one elseintne carriage. Tne rev. Iver was still loaded in five chambers, one only .having been discharged. Elwes was quite sensible at Spencer street, hut became almo-t. unconscious on reaching the hospital. On ex amination it was found that the bullet had entered the left breast just above the heart, and had passed in a direct line through the body, and out at the hack. The ball dropped from the sufferer’s clothes when they were removed in the hospital The wound is of a dangerous character. Some forty odd cartridges weie found in the pockets of the sufferers clothes, also a number of photographs, and a card upon which was written in Blwes’s hiu (writing “ I am tired of this world, and am resolved to end my days.” It appears that Elwes bought the revolver and the cartridges at about the time that he should hj tve been in attendance at the City Court.

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