SUICIDE OF AN OLD SETTLER.
Mr. Thomas Richardson, an old settler in Wellington, committed suicide yesterday by hanging himself. It appears that the deceased •was missed from home early yesterday morning, and search was made for him. Between J> and 10 o’clock information was received by the police, that a young man named Benbow, in passing the gully near Messrs. Hills’ brickfield, had found the body of the _draceasecl hanging to a fence by means of a silk handkerchief: tied tightly round the neck. On examination it was found that life was quite extinct. Mr, Richardson, who was upwards of 'seventy years of age, had, we understand; been suffering from pains in the head for some time, which probably affected his brain. He had been under the medical treatment of Dr. France. : The deceased, who was a colonist of over thirty years standing, was a man possessed of considerable property, and has a grown-up family, all in respectable positions in the colony. An inquest will be held this afternoon at the Brunswick Hotel
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5147, 21 September 1877, Page 5
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173SUICIDE OF AN OLD SETTLER. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5147, 21 September 1877, Page 5
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