SUICIDE IN WELLINGTON.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 438, 6 October 1908, Page 3

SUICIDE IN WELLINGTON.

A married mau named Charles John Bartlett, 60 years of age, committed suicide at his residence, Farm Road, Evans Bay, on Saturday evening. It appears that, after tea, Mrs Bartlett went into town, leaving deceased in charge of five of the younger members of their family. About 7.30 o’clock, deceased, who had been reading a paper, went out of the house. As he did not return the older children searched the house. Afterwards, whilst they were looking around the yard, their mother returned, and they informed her that deceased could not be found. Mrs Bartlett subsequently went into a workshop at the rear of the house. There she found her husband sitting on a box with a revolver at his feet and blood flowing from his mouth. Dr Macgill, who resides in the vicinity, found that life was extinct. Further examination disclosed the fact that a bullet had entered the mouth and, proceeding in an upward direction, lodged iu the brain. An inquest was held yesterday by Dr. M‘Arthur, S.M., without a jury. Tnis was the first inquiry under the new Act which only recently came into force. In the course of her evidence, Mrs Bartlett stated that her husband, who was a builder, had been depressed lately owing to financial worries. The coroner came to the conclusion that deceased died as a lesult of a gun-shot wound self inflicted whilst in a state of temporary insanity arising from financial troubles.