CLERGYMAN’S SUICIDE
WOMAN’S STRUGGLE TO SAVE HIM A woman’s struggle to prevent a clergyman from stabbing himself to death was described at an inquest at Bristol recently on the Rev. William Pierpont Rigby, aged 42, vicar of St Lawrence, Bristol. It was stated that he was depressed because his wife had to undergo an operation. Miss Dorothy a friend of the Ri&bys, who had been staying at the vicarage, said that she found Mr. Rigby standing in front of a wardrobe stabbing himself with a knife. She struggled with him; seized the knife, and threw it away. He felt apparently unconscious. She went for water and bandages. On her return he rose and rushed past her to the bathroom where, in spite of further efforts t* stop him, he cut his throat with a razor. The verdict was suicide while of unsound mind.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 263, 27 January 1928, Page 14
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