SUICIDE AT SEA.
During the voyage of the Union Company’s steamor Taviuni, from Auckland to Rarotonga, on August 15, when in latitude 36’3 8., longitude 179’28 W., about 320 miles from Auckland, a steerage passenger named Edward Railton was found to be. missing. A careful search of the steamer was made for the missing man without success, and it is supposed that he jumped overboard. It was blowing a gale at the time that the man disappeared. Railton oame to Auckland from Tahiti by the Taviuni last trip, it being his intention to proceed to California, but as he was very strange in his manner it was decided to return him to Tahiti. Railton, who was a native of Middlesex, England, is reported to have been very well-to-do, but became possessed with a craze that attempts were being made to poison him. Shortly before he disappeared from the steamer he had been conversing with Captain Hutton and the officers of the steamer, his manner being very strange. His effects were handed over to the British Oonsul at Papeete.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 992, 11 September 1903, Page 3
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