POLICE SERGEANT’S SUICIDE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 55, 29 October 1912, Page 7

POLICE SERGEANT’S SUICIDE.

EFFECT OF INFLUENZA. Sydney, October 12. In the presence of his daughter, Sergeant Mulcahy, who was in charge of the police barracks at Geelong (Vietoria) shot himself dead. Mulcahy, who was greatly respected, was just recovering from a severe attack of influenza. It sometimes happens that influenza patients are subject to suicidal impulses, and this appears to have been the case with him. He worried over trifles, complained that he could not do his work, and showed other signs of great mental depression, though he had never said anything about taking his life. When his daughter called to see him he was, Mulcahy was in his office. His manner was strange, and she followed him when he went to the rear of the buddings. Here he placed his hat on a tank, and then without any warning drew a revolver and shot himself in the mouth. Mies Mulcahy endeavoured to wrest the weapon from him, but he fired it again, inflicting another wound in his head. Mulcahy, who was now dying, retained his senses sufficiently to say “Good-bye” to h’s daughter. The late sergeant, who Was 58 years of age, was for lib years in the police force. He leaves a widow and seven children.