FEARFUL SUICIDE.

Evening Post, Issue 67, 27 April 1865, Page 3

FEARFUL SUICIDE.

The Wagga Express records an extraordinary and fearful suicide. It says : —A terrifying ca«e of self-destruction occurred in the township on Sunday evening last, beine that of a young ninn of but very recent arrival, to fill the office of accountant in the branch Bank of Now South Wales, lately opened here. The misguided unfortunate has been observed for some dny« pa?t to be in a very morbid and desponding state of mind, and on the evening in question leaving his lodging, apparently for a stroll, within a few minutes afterwards deliberately cast himself into a blazing limekiln near at band. Death, no doubt, must have been mercifully all buf instantnneous, and the remains, when drawn forth from the kiln wicket, presented but the appearance of a charred log." The deca9ed'B name wa9 Aimee Renonf. After the discovery of his remains lmd been reported to the Inspector of the Bank, that gentleman and the Manager went to his room and found a candle burning, and the flecea.«ed's Bible open at the 20th chapter of Revelations. The deceased's habits were temperate, and he was of good rppute. The " Express" concludes its report of the proceedings with the following observations —" From the tenor of the evidence at the inquiry, and the significant, circumstances of the Bible found lyine open in his room at the place indicated, 20th Revelations, with its description of thn bottomless pit, the supposition strongly presents itself as to how fnrßenouf left home with premediated intention of self-destruction, particularly in the manner in which the fearful act was accomplished ; but rather that musiig on the contents of the chapter, in fche then morbidly diseased state of his mind, and approaching the spot in question, he was mentally drawn onwarls. as the moth is pbysicHlly, to the flume, the impulse gathering" intensity until it became uncontrolnlde, and the dreadful art wns ncromjdishefi. Such supposition is the moat merciful one; and we may here state, with reference to the question that may primarily present itself to most minds as to cause of act, that no mone» tary defalcations are known of or suspected." ________^__