Suicides.
(Per Press Association.) Auckland, August 10. Last evening a bugler of the H.M.S. Rapid committed suicide in Water's Coffee Palace, Queen Street. He came in and asked for a bed. He locked biniself in a room and took a doso of oxalic acid, which he had purchased of ft local chemist also two bottles of chlorodyne. He died in five minutes. Deceased was a native of Dartmoor, his father being an official in Dartmoor prison. At the inquest a verdict otfelo de se was returned. Nothing transpired to account for his rash act. He was keeping company with a girl and intended trying to get bis discharge to marry her. Wellington, August 10. At the inquest on the body of the widow named Minnie Kiely, who was found dead in her residence yesterday, the medical evidence showed that death was the result of taking spirits of salts.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 36, 11 August 1896, Page 2
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