INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS
I PEK UNITED PEEBS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, September 1. At noon to day the dead body of a man named John Ford was discovered hang. in« by the aeck. Deceased was a fish hawker, sixty years of age, and resided in Parnell. For some time past he has been suffering severely from rheumatism. Mrs Ford found her husband hanging at the back door in the bedroom, He had got a staple and driven it into the wall, and bung himself with a clothes line. He left the following letter addressed to his wife : — " My dear wife,— When you get this note I will be no more. Poverty and ill-health caused me to commit the rash act. 1 tried to work yesterday, but could not. 1 have brought trouble enough on you. That landlady said I was at work, and I was not. I have brought you just Is 6d in eight weeks ; so good-bye and God bless you. May God have mercy on me."
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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 28, 3 September 1891, Page 2
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