Suicide.
(trJriTErj pbess; association.)' . , AncJKLAND, Th|is Day. William Pickett, , sh^rebroker, committed Buipide at his. lodgings (filrs Griffitjh,'s, Welissjey -street) Tate last niglitJ "He 1 had locked hirhself m his bedrodm; uudressed and shot himself through the 1 heart with 'a charge from a doublebarrelled guni ■■ A few minutes before the event. Mrs Griffiths heard him say m his bed-room that ineu were after him.' He had been out on the previous night, but returned to his lodgings last night. There is no clue to the cause for the deed except that he had been drinking. He was a single man and had no relations
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 168, 13 June 1884, Page 3
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104Suicide. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 168, 13 June 1884, Page 3
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