Scene at a Suicide's Burial.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 38, 13 July 1885, Page 2

Scene at a Suicide's Burial.

The riflago of Delph, near Sadulesworth, was greatly excited one Si>n.day evening I'eccMitljAvl'jen a young Au>ivirtU named Ailolp v h v Skrofypfsky^ vthjtt ', -was foreign con - espohden(< ; of 5 :JVltJSser? Shaw au<l ; Op^ . ooiriniitted ■suicide i% taking, prussic laeidi : :\fAi; the inquest wljicKjb.llbweily; the ovijdonce was. of such a character that the I ji% r . returned 'a "verdict offelo tiese.-Lii aGcoriiaticjJ with tin* ' coroner's '~ waiv [rant, Superintendent Stott, the he*d jof the S^ddle%'ortlip6lico. force, had itp take charge df-the-bbd^, and see • that it w^;'^nfe'iTed^wibhbCitxi?JigiAU!r: :rite or eto'fcmony. 'i'ne t'tifieral took jtfl&ce :<m jtbe .folio w,ing .fThureday/ at kjjfi jinde;p;endent Chapel, w&ent ■a most unusual scone -pcpureili,! •Tli ough eve ry % effort was; made to kee j > ttbe time of the interment a aecret, j h undred*- .-.- of people;, were • ,p>fesen t. ! A^ter cliefbddy^had ,|)een lowered intq ; ■ihe ; g^ave,; aa.attempc was Trna.de-, . to:!4»jg^Mwiy?ff^%^ pN '■■ P°^ce iinter.r r . / ffi)Ted : aid th c . company to ; 'disjiiersev,' THis order ho^^wevei;, woul'^ Xva.v6 - vbeen of ;no, avail -but for, Mr r ißicbkrci©^ton, an^nncie of the: de!ceased,; who naked the assemblage not :tp ; create a scene}.; ;Tha-x>mprtny ireluctantlyr.retirefJ outside the §rave. lyard and sang a hymn there. On the Sunday, evening afteuibe occnrreuceiafinirs reached a culminating point. JNoarlyi 4 20Pj^iP^sohsa$sembliftd ip the I chapel yard, and sang* several hyoms ;as a protest jigaftipfi a;law^ which was Klescribed a« Jmt a remnant of a bar- | baric age. Th'e leading. members of ;.all.the choirs. i» the district, 'were 5 present to as^st m the singing. Over ! t,]jc.grav.Q bail., b.een j)lact^ s a-^amAlL ] lie^dßt^^ith^b^me of Vth|JMef jceaseii upon it/ and th« well-knowu quofation frond Tbui Hoyd's "Bridge ' ofSighs ". j .'',A,las fgr .the rarity;; ,o£ jeiiristian cbaViCy." 'After ! the singj ing the secvice at; ; the chapel was veiy i largely attended, /the. A place, being ; crowded t«> the doors/ The preacher^; Khc.-Rev. J. Campbell, m ail«din«y to ' i\) e event which had brought them ! ftwefheiv expressed a' hope- that l'epre i Isehfations wqiild ' be made to t|i,e' Honie, ,S ( eci;e tary -with,, .. the . k view of i getting sucb' a. J harbaric law repealed. I v i! * n V' '-'•' - ; " ••"-'-''■ -• •'■ '-'■;• ' ■;■ I