HORRIBLE SUICIDE IN OTAGO.
(per press association.) I ; i e .DUNEDIN, June 14. ! A shepherd on a'run 1 near Lake Wanaka committed suicide by cutting his throat with : a pocket-knife. He went out mustering, and ifancied'heacould sej* people iceming (witKs|eaiß. ? 'Herln away,.fell ,(fye£alpr(|ji-! pice, and afterwards, becoming more frighi tened, cut himself with a knife to put an end to his.life. , He lay out all night in a severe; frosty an d’ was found-alive by the 4 sbarcfers.; He was brought to .the. Cromwell Hospital, but died. His name was John Oswald Stewart, a native of Glasgow, and he was well educated. He got; remittances, which led to his drinking, and a drinking bout is believed to have been the cause of the act.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1047, 15 June 1883, Page 3
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