The Wellington Suicide.
(Per Press Association.) Wellinoton, December 6. The news of Todd's suicide caused some sensation. He was tine officer selected with Mr Kember to inquire into the Public Trust system of book keeping during the session. Enquiries wero beiug made for him tbis morning to sign some papers before his departure, and it was ascertained that about 1 p.m. he had blown his brains out at his lodgings at Thorndon. It is believed he was going to Sydney to get married. It was his brother who shot himself in Dunedin iv March last and inexplicable as that suicide was the present is still more startling. So far as is known at present no reason can be assigned for the act. Todd's leave was six weeks, not six months.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 138, 7 December 1894, Page 2
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