SUICIDE OF AN OAMARU SETTLED.
About noon yesterday, Mr John M'Millan, a settler who has been favorably known in the district for about 14 years, was found hanging in the store behind his dwelling house at Allday Bay. John M'Millan has been married about four years, and leaves a widow and three children. He complained of a pain in his chest during the last day or two, but did his work as usual. On Monday he was putting in potatoes. Yesterday morning he killed two sheep, and worked about his place. He asked Mrs M'Millan to have dinner early. He then went out. An hour afterwards she went to look for him. Her brother told her that he had seen deceased going towards the store. Mrs M'Millan accordingly went to the store, which is about 300 yards from the house. There she found him suspended from a beam. She slackened the rope and let him down, and then summoned assistance. Mathew Biggar, brother-in-law of deceased, who has been working for him since harvest, and a man named Thomas Shea, were together when deceased asked Biggar for the key of the store. On getting the -key, deceased went to the stable and returned with a piece of rope in his hand.—“ North Otago Times.”
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2369, 20 October 1880, Page 3
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213SUICIDE OF AN OAMARU SETTLED. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2369, 20 October 1880, Page 3
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