Remarkable Suicide.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1655, 11 March 1886, Page 4

Remarkable Suicide.

The Brisbane correspondent' of the Australasian writes :tt-A very remarkable suicide occurred herelast week. A man named Eeardon went, into the Botanical Gardens with a revolver,: and apparently a determination to kill hinlself. r ;He Iselected <a jfppt. on ; *tbe slope near the caretaker's cottage,- a favourite resort of. children and jheir nurses, who frequent the gardens.' Selecting, a time— the dinner hour— when the gardens- are empty, ha prepared for death. .First hie scored a deep cross m the sandy ba^e ground utrder a small native, bush, and then kneoHijn; so as to f all b've^r ft, He pub the . irtstol to his chest and fir eel. The woun.i was not immediately fatal, tor he missed the heart, which he. : evjdently; hoped to pierce. ..Hpweyet. he fell' forward, aifd had the .resolution fo lie with his forehead resting on his arms asif asleep, till the ( death-agony set infa period of- some hours the 'ddctors say^— and' even theni though h'e^it his tbtiguo through, he gave no indication:' Jt6 the children playinsr around tlie spbt.iipr; the strollers who passed within a few feet : of him, that he was riot simply indulgingin an open- air sleep. He even took the precaution to lay the revolver clown hy his side near the stem of the^bush, so that it might not attract attention, '