SOME SUICIDE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 195, 28 July 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

SOME SUICIDE.

The suicide over Ea-st of a miner, aged who was found shot dead, with a sharp carving-knife and poison hy his side, recalls another case. Arizona Bill Adams, than whom there was no better known identity on the early Coolgardie fielda, was once telling a smoke-night crowd of a case in California.

"Jake Kelly," related Arizona B 11, "had determined on suicide, and to inako sure got to the edge of a cliff overhanging the sea. "There was a tree overhanging the water," continued Bill, "and Jako fastened one end of a rope to the tree and the other around his neck.

" I'll en alter ho (had floated his clothes in kerosene he ignited himself, took a dose of strychnine, and just before lie jumped off to hang himself he hred a pistol bullet at himself. He a'so had a hundred pounds of iron on iii« legs to help him to drown. Everyone at the soak smocial was listening with suspended breath. "'He came through all right," said Bdl after a pause in which vou could have heard the beads on the whisky winking. The bullet he fired cut the rope, and •lake fel' into the sea, which put the nre out. He swallowed a lot of sea water, which made him sick, and up came the poison." "Yes!" gasped a wore of listeners, if *i 5" as k p d the chairman of the And how about the weights around shivoo.

"I'm coming to that,"' said Bill. 'Just as he was going down for the tenth and last- time the hotel waiter came in and woke him up to drink his coffee.'

They never forgave Bill.—"The Australasian. '