A TRAGEDY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1657, 25 January 1906, Page 3

A TRAGEDY.

POLICE CONSTABLE SHOOTS HIMSELF. o) E——i SI Constable George Larkin, aged 23 G years, of Parramatta, New South Wa cs, t shot himself with a revolver on January at 12, and died in the Parramatta Hospilal ° about an hour later. . Larkin went on duty at 10 p.m., and about half past 12 a m. was noticed oil his usual beat. Senior-Const able We'st followed him, to see what was the matter. Larkin must have slipped into a doorway on the way up Church street North, os, when West reached Mr Halt’s chemist shop, he heard the sound of a shot bohind him, and going back found Larkin lying in the doorway of a shop at the Parramatta Corporation Bath Buildings, bis hand grasping a ! reoently-disobargcd revoher and the thumb pressing the trigger. Larkin waß bleediDg from two wounds in the head, but life was not extinct, and be was removod to the Parramatta Hospital, where be died shortly after 2 a.m. Constable Larkin had only b:on five months in the force, during which t’mo ho was stationed in Parramatta. The editor of the Cumberland Argus reoeived a letter writleu by Larkin, dated I a qdartsr past 9 p.m. on the 11th, stating: I “ I am leaving this world becauso I am tired of life, but my words are true conerning this letter.’ 1 ■ ' Larkin’s btter complained of nnfsir treatment on the part of a senior officer. It stated : ‘‘l have been treated in a most cruel way. Reports he sent to Superintendent Brennan against me were a solid foundation of lies. That is why bo won the case against mo. I will conclude,asking the Inspeotor-Genersl to see further into the brutal and unreasonable way in whioh men are treated. lam writing to the Inspector-General for him to have an interview with the poor, overworked polios Qf Paramatta."