Sad Suicide.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 125, 22 April 1884, Page 2

Sad Suicide.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) : ;OJ. i;o :QfI[RISTC|IURC^Ap ; riI 21;,-' \ The dead body of a man with a bulI letjfijiwAandiiiia the, Jjead.-rwasi found ,m ! Hagley Park yesterday. From a letter | on the body j;it: appearsr deceased was ! John ftqsuwell. His brother James : B'bsewell~i?< Ifraig iW Syd^tfam 32 And his wife at Pavenport, England. Xp. the letter, wTficlris'very' sad, the unfor-; tunate' .writer; set out that he ,bad beep m the ±toyal Marine service, ana some four years since was invalided through blood-poisoning. Since then he had suffgreu grda'frfy.CespeciaUy froWi paink m tbe head. He arrived here a fevjr weeks agoy'-'by 'the Idnicj -bht though better on the, voyage, had a f return r ofttie ofd" milady. "•"' dMlirig" Wget- 'relief from variou.Sjjjpcto^ajihe^ applied to, he spent his last money (£2) m the purlchase of h a revolver/, with^the intern ion of destroying himself, as he despaired of ever obtaining— telief from pain. Part of the letter was written on Apiii 7th, iifc'wßtiKcK^ He infend<& -to shoot ! frimself, but went to see a druggist and. i then Dr Townsehtl, and was finally admi'ijt^d tpithe-hospital, JNo n relief folio wad, however, and he says fhat he falscJy stated that _ho was better m ' order to get out of the hospital; and ; pi 15,)the;da^6f^_hg/.sgs^ijl | portion of the letter, he appearn to* have.cax ried'd'ut thedtftehtionffoi. 1 whic^i he bouj»ht the revolver. ! f: ■■«r, < ..W '-Ta- .• :-t ,