SENSATIONAL SUICIDE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1927, 8 November 1906, Page 3

SENSATIONAL SUICIDE.

A POSTMABTEK TAKES HIS LIFE. PRESS ASSOCIATION Weliogtoo, last night.

Mr Dean, postmaster at Palmerston ■South, who had eomo Co Wellington to ercuro medical treatment, entered a private hospital last evening, aud this morning was found dead in his room with his throat out,.all the blood vessels having beeu severed with a keen kn fe. He had been visited by the nuree a few minutes hrfore, and was then all right. A frisnd of deceased’s, who had known him a long | time, said Doan war a sober, steady mm, His head had troubled him of late, and latterly he had r. quired a good deal oi at'ention, D.-csased had a wife, three daughters and ono son.

ana unu uuu. 1 Dr, Henry stated that ho had been attending deceased since the 30th ult. His nervous condition was unstable, and witne s advised that ho should be watched. Ho saw deceased at about midday the previous day, and aivised his removal to a private hospital, his general demeanor then being quite rational. Deoeased had ' not exhibited any suicidal tendeDoy. W;tne33 had informed the nurses that he did n't thick deosnsed would give them ■ any trouble. Ho did not consider the oase : qob for removal to an asylum, i Thn jury returned a verdiet that doi esared committed euicide during a fit of