An Extraordinary Suicide.
_ * (m pbeks association) London, December 23. Lloyds Burdekin, son of Mr Sydney Burdekin (who was mayor of Sydney in 1890), blew out his brains at Dillon on the Thames, opposite Hampton Court Park. The evidence adduced at the inquest revealed no cause for the deed, and tbe jury returned a verdict that deceased committed suicide while in a state of temporary insanity. Mr David George, London manager of the Bank of New South Wales, gave evidence to the effect that deceased, who had been attending Oxford University, was allowed unlimited credit, also that he had neither spent any large amount nor been extravagant in living. Burdekin wrote a letter to this wit« ness, in which he said, " For God's sake keep the case from scandal, as I have taken my life while perfectly sane." The coroner also received a letter from the deceased, in which he desired that, for the honor of his family, the suicide should be regarded as an accident.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 152, 24 December 1894, Page 3
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