EX-DETECTIVE SHOOTS HIMSELF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1071, 18 November 1911, Page 3

EX-DETECTIVE SHOOTS HIMSELF.

Pau:ui-;kston, To-day

Kx-Deleelive Benjamin, wm> nice his retirement lias resided m Palmerston N., shot himself in the right temple with a revolver at 7.30 p.m. yesterday, and died at lire Hospital without regaining consciousness at 11.20 p.m.

He ate his dinner as usual, and proposed to go to bed early, without any indication ot anything out of the way. At the time named. Mrs Benjamin heard a shot in a room next to me scullery, and running in found him with the blood streaming from a wound in the temple. The unconscious man was taken to the Hospital. The bullet was at the base of the brain, and there was no hope ol his living more than a few hours.

Ol late, he suffered great pain Iroiu an internal stoppage and it is supposed that the state of illhealth preyed on a man who had always been used to good health. He, however, showed no indication ol contemplating the act that he committed yesterday and had no financial anxieties.

Mr Benjamin leaves a widow, two sous and a step-daughter.

A FORMER FORICE SUICIDE. The suicide ol ex-Detective Benjamin recalls the suicide also by shooting ot Constable Kidd, of Foxtou, at the Palmerston Police Station some years ago. He was there relieving and between 5 and 6 p.m. endeavoured to purchase laudanum trom Raery’s Mr Graham refused to sell it to him, and before miduight he shot himself