THE END OF AN ECCENTRIC LAWYER.
The following is from the last “ Home News ” to hand : —'Mr John Rae, the widely-known and eccentric Belfast attorney, terminated his extraordinary career the other day by discharging a pistol-bullet into bis brain. He had risen in the morning as usual to admit bis clerk into the office, when lie retired to his room, and six houis later was found lying dead in nis bed, Ins forehead pierced aoove the light eye, and his right baud grasping a revolver. Mr Rae was tnc successful school rival of Lord Cairns and O’Hagan, and in the early part oi his career he attracted much public notice by his appearance in Parliament as
relator against the Belfast - Corporation. Many rumors are in circulation as to the probable cause of the rash act, but it is believed he committed suicide while in a fit of temporary insanity. For the past few' weeks he had been in a remarkably depressed condition.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2602, 23 July 1881, Page 2
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162THE END OF AN ECCENTRIC LAWYER. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2602, 23 July 1881, Page 2
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