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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 453, 14 February 1867, Page 3

Melancholy Suicide in Dublin.—A melancholy instance of drink’s doings has just occurred in Dublin. A suicide of a character the most determined took place on the night of the 23rd November, at 28 Sackville-street, the business establishment of our friend and supporter Mr Eichard Allen, clothier. The unfortunate victim was a young man, aged 28 years, named Thomas J. Donnelly, who did business in Mr Allan’s employment as salesman. He w as a young man of remarkably preposessing appearance, and was highly respectably connected, his brother being a minister of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, and now in the Portadown Circuit. For some time past, the deceased had been addicted to habits of intemperance, from the effects of which he seemed to suffer a considerable degree of mental disturbance at intervals. It is rumored that owing to this Donnelly had received notice that his services would soon be dispensed with by Vlr Allen, and from the fact that he was engaged to be married, at an early period, to a young lady to whom he had been engaged for a considerable period, and who also offered him the choice to give her or the whiskey up, it so much preyed on his mind that it is feared it led to the melancholy catastrophe. Ho had been a Wesleyan class leader and local preacher. During the whole of Friday Donnelly was observed to be in an exceedingly desponding mood. On Friday evening the deceased took his tea at six o’clock, after which ho went to his bedroom. On young Mr Allen returning to the house about ten o’clock, he went to Donnelly’s room and found the door locked. This excited his apprehension. On the bed in the room lay th£ inanimate remains of the occupant ; the floor was deluged with his blood. The deceased lav across the bed on his back, and on the floor was lying a razor smeared with blood The suicide had turned up the right leg of his trousers and cut one of the arteries on the calf, and had thus bled to death. The jury returned the following verdict : “That Thomas Donnelly, the deceased, died from a wound inflicted on his leg with a razor, ho being at the time of unsound mind.”—Correspondent Alliance News.