EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.

Evening Star, Issue 4131, 24 May 1876, Page 4

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.

A young man named William A. Henderson, a clerk in the Bank of Australasia, Sydney, committed suicide on April 22, because he received a slight reprimand from his. superior officers. The ‘ Herald ’ states that the deceased had been at home all the previous evening, apparently in his usual health, and about- nine o’clock said to his sister that he was going to retire to his room, as he had a couple of letters to write. On Saturday morning he was called to breakfast as usual, and, not making any reply, his sister went to his window, which she found open, and on raising the blind saw him lying motionlesson the bed, dressed. Life was found to be extinct. In a tumbler on the dressing-table there was a small quantity of liquid, and on the side of the glass a sediment, which was pronounced to be cyanide of potassium. Two letters were found in the deceased’s room addressed to friends, intimating that he had contemplated suicide. He is said to have been of a remarkably sensative temperament, and having incurred the displeasure of his superiors at his office for some trifling irregularity, it is supposed that he permitted it to weigh upon bis mind and intellect. The jury, after hearing the evidence, found that death had resulted from the effects of au overdose of deadly poison taken knowingly.