Shocking Suicide

Feilding Star, 29 June 1886, Page 2

Shocking Suicide

O«b vhitmd pkkss AssoctATioir] -y , WBLMKOtOM, ThH I'«y.1 '«y. ' A melancholy suicide was reported thin morning, Mr W. Bnrniooat, * teacher at Wellington ooliege, bit ring «hot hiramlt. Mr Barftioo« t. jesterd ■• f appeared . [:t'o be wanderibc in, b» mild. »nd •poll** in ft ■trnnj^mnnntttosomt of the pupils. Later on the day he eowplnioed of teini d«prai(fpd | in; «pirit«, and Mr Maokay, th» l^nciptl, sent lor Dr Collins, Whti administered * sletpin* rwuglit and Mr Barnicoat fell asleep/ Otf tii* ma-l#rs I rMiaeuibling this uiorninsr di'cea^ed was I missiiiK. and *n ienrehin^ bis study^he j Wa» fonnd qn ..#• dead 40 a sitting position, with a bullet hole in hii tempfe, and a Itun Ifinf by his *td«. Deceased wait a younjt mnn. -popular Mm<mn the pupils, and took n promin<*at part in Bp»rtii. H<* eriden ly shot hii««elf about 8.15 this niorniuK. The oui«e i.« attributed to n»rr<>u* depresMion. / He had complained ■ i es'lesxarat. liit understood decen^ed let a letter in wliicli he declnr*d Ina in tedtion of destrojrißK hinise.f. He wan a »on ot the Upu, -J; \V. Barniooftt, M..L 0

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