The Death of Mr George Walton

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 38, 13 September 1890, Page 4

The Death of Mr George Walton

■, —^ — — I The following significant letter appeared iv the Wellington Post on Tuesday. last. Sir— l am oonatraiued to submit- a- few remarks re the deutb ii f George Walton. , Until. your last night's issue I felt convinced that Walton had been accidentally killed or -drowned.' But, on reading the brief telegraphic account of the stone in the satchel- — pointing to suicider— l am compelled to say that during my lengthy colonial experience I have never come across a more unlikely person to commit such an act. A few days before his horse was picked "up I'was with Walton for some hours, and .l must' say that he was in the height of good spirits and health, looking forward at no distant date to his marriage with one to whom he was ■? strongly attached. Others more intimately, acquainted with Walton thanvmyseift may., be able to testify Stronger reasons than I can for the unlikeliness of suicide being the cause of death- As it is, from the very brief accounts wb have had with regard to the finding of papers, letters, &c, belonging: to Walton on the banks of T the river, it. appears to me that the assumption of suicide is very unsatisfactory, v. And I for one sincerely trust that /before this matter is . forgotten the authorities will make all due in- - quiries, and satisfy themselves upon what- appears to me the very doubtful manner in which poor Walton met hie 'death. — I am, &c., W: Riley. 6th. September, r