Suidede of Two Lads.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 208, 25 June 1887, Page 8

Suidede of Two Lads.

Ox Monday la-t two l.uK each 1 I yeais of a<;e, coirmitted suicide in the neighbour hood of Vienna, Ivy blov, inf, their brain= out v, ith a luvoher. Theii bodie- were found in a uncy.ud, each of them holding a lcu'hu in l.i- li^ht. hr.nd. One of the ill-faud bo}- v. it not quitj dead, but he exphul after ho Wii» found. Each of them h.-fl a not'? in lu'-- pocket. One inn thu* : '- Mn niane i^ Fi'.mk f oi-t : lam ]-i job- 01 aoc : i.jy fath" i- a groecJ-. Dua pa ci't-jfor^-I c me m\ i.'-iIU and^my &in". f cannct help it ; I niu-i die." The note found on the othu boy as a- follows: •' My nnnvMs Fuviz I'eimlc. Tarn 14 3 ears old and \w^ a compo-itor'< a{>pi entice in the .Va^u-tiner I have thot i>u-..1f and Xi an- :d-o, becinse I led him a-'ti -v." T'lN double suicide of t^s•o mere cl 11 ; 3 ' en ha-, cau-ed a mo-t painful im]iTe- c ion in Viom\a Tho lad (loi»t seems to'h". -o |/!frM tnvtni from school for ii whole ear without hi-, parent finding it out. JJoth lie and ln\ companion had been leading unwholt^ome lit^i.itia-e, which is supposed to have woiked upon their imajrinations. They had neither of them the .-li^htot ciu'-e fo,- wony or complaint, and v. ere well treated at honv\ Cuiiou.-ly cno'.^h, a t-hoit t'me ago a playmate^ of il.eii- al-o committed by throwing hir^olf f.o-i the tower of St. Augustine, > church