ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

Evening Star, Issue 4225, 11 September 1876, Page 4

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

A very sad case of attempted suicide 00. . furred on the morning of the 3rd instant. .. The details are of the most painful kind. The victim was a young man named Pietro , .Corrado, who has been some time in the Colony, and had latterly had an engagement in, the Public Works department as messenger, his salary being 36s per week. It appears that Corrado committed the ■ rash act in the morning on ( the road opposite the railway station. He was observed by a man working on the railway, who saw him point £ ■ reVolver at his breast. He rushed forward, but was too late to prevent the "•"* rififorttmate young man accomplishing his object. The bullet penetrated his body, and he fell, but was not insensible, for he was :. capable of answering questions put to him. Mr Orottie, who happened to be at the rail- , way station at the time, went over and asked Corrado if he had purposely shot himself, to which the answer was, “ Yea, I did and in response to an inquiry as to the cause of his acting so, he said, “They have accused mo of stealing a latter, and I wish to die.” A letter was found on Corrado, addressed “To anyone who shall find m *,’ Tho letter ran as follows:—“To anyone Who shall find me I die victim of tbos< who so unscrupulously have darked arouiu > mo with the most heinous and false charge. I hope to find in Heaven right justice, wha I ..couldn’t hare got among men on tL;s joairth.—^ The unfortunate P Corrado, Wei lington, this 3rd morning of Hyphen,bor, 187 d.” The explanation of thi 1 strange conduct is, so far as we have bee able to learn, as follows Recently a Ictfc. •despatched from the Public Works ofiici, i let^^waS 1 stthsb(ipiently foiiuu ih'the wkfetekl paper basket, part of it bearing some scrib-1

bling in the hand of Corrode. He had a haidt of thus writing on scraps of piper, and therefore there seems little probability that he corild have been, .concerned in the detention of the letter, which, as often happ'ens. may have been accidentally left out of’ tie envelope by the writer, and afterwards have got into the waste-paper basket. Owing to some remarks made by another messenger, which seemed to implicate' him, Coiradd TJecome cxtreinely hurt, and apparently’ let' the matter prejy on his mind, and to make his grief the greater, it Is stated ihkt<he was rudely exelndedfrem the Obveninfent buildings on Saturday/< Cbrrido was well- edueatad, mud spoke this) English language tolerably W6s. Hb had been employed to the , XtaUSn immigrants.-i’ IT. Times.’ " ;