DETERMINED SUICIDE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8941, 5 October 1907, Page 2

DETERMINED SUICIDE.

Per Press Association. Auckland, October 5. At midnight, while members of the steamer Squall were yarning on the vessel alongside the railway wharf, an unknown man about 35 suddenly appeared among .them clothed in only the scantiest underwear. He stated he was in serious trouble and wished to avoid the police, and expressed his intention to drown himself at six o’clock in the morning. Springing upon the steamer’s rail he dived overboard. Constable Holland, who wa? on the wharf, joined the Squall’s crew. A boat was lowered and was rowed after the would-be suicide. He swam under the wharf and his pursuers were on the point of securing him when he took a long dive and was never seen again His discarded coat, trousers and shirt were subsequently discovered on the wharf. Later. The body has been recovered and identified as that of William Thompson, wharf labourer.