SUICIDE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 116, 18 January 1915, Page 4

SUICIDE.

AN EREHWON TRAGEDY. A caso of death by saticids i; reportii from the Ercwon Station. An Englishman, Johnson, ?>9 years f age, who had been employed on he Ngamatea Station t'cr some time, .eft the station a fortnight ago to ride o Taihape. The next day his horse as found tied to a fence at Brevvhon 'vat no notice was taken of Johnson's bseae'e because sjJ?c]cng:?.d ..hsW i.bsence then. Hcweyev, when his ab-jen-e became prolonged, the police tore-re notified while a powerful party of station owners s'nd hands made earch for the missing: man. T-lis body was found at 9 o'cloc!: yeserday morning lying in the open on he Erewhon Station. He had evident'v committed the crime by cutting his hrc?.<: the rc/cr, the hriplement fovnd in his hand. K> appears •i h-'vo been dead for fully a fort•rjht. />n Inonest will be held at Ngrawaka "-day.