GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 181, 7 April 1915, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

A FAMOUS CRICKETER. .%'>' { COMMITS SUICIDE. .r[ "'"■■ ( "Re.". $.50 r.r::.) i LONDGir, Uribs. The Echo reports that Stoddart, the famous cricketer, shot himself, ou'itig • to financial difficulties "~~"" dud Australia. i * AT THE INQUEST. \ » THE WIDOW'S EVIDENCE. LONDON. Apri] \ AI. the inquest on Stcd<b.vl. M* \vidcw, in Iv.if evidence, said: lbs r•signed the secretaryship o" the Qiuvn'9 Club owing to nervous bi :ikdcw:i at' I had been without work sine:?; he ' » very depressed at hav.ing lose hi* money through th e war. Lata on ?a '.- urday night he took a pistcl from his pcoket and said he wag going to finish it. She advised him to criji; iult M* friends, and after a flight ;a<!:le she sseured the pistol, but • > turned it as it -was not loaded, bu; Jl9 took away the box of cartridge.;. ter she found hiin dead in beck aid tlren discovered lie had another box of cartridges. The verdict was chq of suicide. LANCASHIRE STEEPLECHASE. LONDON, April ft. The Lancashire Steeplechase resulted as follows: Vermouth 1, T3v> pledcwnoy 2, Kc-nia 3, Bullawarre was unplaced.