More Suicides.
♦ (Per Press Association.) Wellington, This Day. Two bodies were picked up in the harbour this morning. Circumstances lead to the belief that both cases are suicides. } One was an elderly man, 58 years of age, named Gibson. He had been suffering from cancer on the liver, and arrangements were made to take him into the Hospital, but he told his friends he would bo found drowued some day. The other case was that of Mrs Tait, a married woman, aged 50. She was reported missing yesterday, and found this morning in Oriental Bay. Both she and her husband were spiritualists, and she was more than peculiar in her behaviour. According to her husbaud, she had beeu in a despondent state lately, and upon enquiring into the case tho police found such evident traces of mental derangement in another member of the family that a warrant was at once obtained for committal to the lunatic asylum.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 15, 18 July 1894, Page 2
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