SUICIDE BY A CLERGYMAN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 286, 6 November 1883, Page 2

SUICIDE BY A CLERGYMAN.

A fearful tragedy; was. enacte^ jon board the steamer Manitpban, on'" her voyage to Quebec. Among tha cabin passengers from Glasgow .was t^6;B.JT Mr Sweet, a Presbyterian iclergjmin, wbO3e most remarka.bl« condacfc-1 ca&> onlj be accounted for on tHe thepryj of ?. temporary insanity,- VSThen ite.»es|!el w<is passing through the Straits of Belle Isle, the unfartunata man. wsis 6bservedib rush on deck ifith histbrpat cut, and, before any thing could, be clpaß to pi event him, h.3 had thrown himself overboard. The alarm was at once given, and the ship was put about with ; all possible despatch. The was running, however, at the timeatitbe rate of 14 knots an boar, and. it w^s therefore nearly half an hour before the' bo-lyof Mr Sweet 6ould be r . recovered^! Strange to say it floated on the w.ater, and when brought on, board there wjs stil life m tbe body. The unfortunate, man seemed to have suff rad, .little or nothing* by bis half ho it's, float upon the survice ot the sea, bat the gash m the throat was a fearfol one and had to be stitched by the medical officer on board m four or five places, 'ihe un-i fortunate man expired Toon ; aftßr 'the 3lan]t6ban arrived 1 iiri port. Mr faweet was forty yearyof age. '<