Suicide at Dunedin
r [PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION J B Dunedtn, April 20 Mr E, S, H.'iy. the well-known nolici 'i tor, committed >uicide this afternoon \v li cutting It is throat. Latest particulars state the suicidi V appears to have been most determined •t He was living with his sister, who lef - him in the house. On returning sh< found that he had taken a basin to hole ■t the blood, and then hacked away at hi: throat with a blunt knife, the basin heini o full of blood. He appeared then to hi vi r ijoue to the bath-room, where the b it! q was found with- the blood and watei t mixed. Miss Hay at once procurer medical nid, and though, when the docfoi arriced, Hay was pulseless, he toie awaj ' nt the wound with his nails, lie died ' shortly afterward, fie was a single mar " nnd it is supposed he committed the rasl t act while suffering under some strong v delusion. mmmmmmmm^^ mmmmmmmm
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 122, 21 April 1887, Page 2
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168Suicide at Dunedin Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 122, 21 April 1887, Page 2
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