HORRIBLE SUICIDE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 161, 10 July 1877, Page 4

HORRIBLE SUICIDE.

(Evening Post.) j At an early hour thia morning pari -.ie-lairs were>eoeived in the eifcyjof: _ "• imp pS suicide which occurred War| the Half-way Houae, on Jbe Ponruaj c B(0«d, last night. *yha %eta of -be* case, as represented to ua show that ihe! " unfortunate man waa Mr Carey) "t_(;tib___8 v ßr6w-, a man over fifty years | of agev had 1 w ell-khdtf h .tf 'the h_- a surveyor and draughtsman, who had jsome 7 time ago bean in the employ of the Public Work. Department. When j%und ; t|y ppnatable; Ry«n al aa early j hour Ibis morning the dece___»d wasj Jhao^ing to a. post and rail feoce whiphj bounds the rb__, and he was the^/j^e! dead, the frosty appearance of the clothes abating tbst fiehad been dead _^_t^hour_. The handkerchief, an old " silk one, with which the deceased, had bir object, ; was knOttea ti^h%irotuid She throat, -it seemed aa if the poor wafli after fastening it, had secured it to v the, top rail qf - the feoc^f _shd°^_e_' lite.ally lain" down to pressor^ go t thaA he^waaafteEiwards "strangled. The thrpat showed very decided impreseiona bi the atrain on the \ hankercli.ief,, and that death had only ! resulted after a severe struggle. The daqeaaed was w^ell J-aowa. in the^Pi^y, 'and it" i&jevident that want coulof sot have been tba cause of the rash act, as, i when found by Conatoble %ao, hefea_d mteb'ioi&ptgna' ih._is poq"^^ a JEI--ifejfe^And 3a 0c! - : iri" 'atfveri "~lif is said ,-ha -hb ..bae«.>troal)le_l .n -his mind |?Cl§pP9 ,4ja.a,;bßek, owing {b'4omestic grievances, and has been eegaraiad. from hia wife end .family. 'There was no sjg«? of |drbk aboptthecdeceaaediwlien found; HTfact, he had been seen -By Cqustable .Ryan between 6 add 7 ftclopk laafc-Qveaia^ making his way along ithe -road., aa if coming into the •eityf ao that it is r tb be .presiijaed he cfid tfie deed^hpftjy; afterwards. He ihen seamed in ;hi& maual healii- and spi-i's, aad spoke to tbe constable in a taost oheerfut manner. The depesaed &a^ two ab'os in "ofßciai.positioaa in the ..Uhjod »t t-naed hardly be aiidthat (the, sad ogfeir has caused 1 ihe moat melancholy feelings of regret. ,"', '■.-,