SUDDEN DEATH.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 123, 19 June 1901, Page 2

SUDDEN DEATH.

A painful sers ition was caused in New' Plymouth yesterday win n news f tbe death of Mr. John Eirp known. Tbe deceased who was formerly in bus'ness with Messrs. Okey, Arnold and Earp, retir;d from that firm on amount cf ill Health. Since then he made a trip Home returning some weeks back, since which he hat a'so made a trip to Auckland. F..i some time he has been in the hands of Dr. Walker suffering from severe mental depression. Everything was done by his family, his friends, and his med'c 1 adviser to give relief, and lately r was thought he hud c-aside'ably improved. On Monday evening he seemed ir,ore cheerful than usua l , and! retited with bis wife. About 2 o'cl ck he appsared to be sleeping soundly Mrs. Earp woke ag in sho tly lefote six o'clo k and found he had left he «ide. She roso at once, and go ng into the kitch9n found him quite dead. He had in his hand a knife with which | he had severed the main arterie3 on 'ha light side of his neck end hari b'ed to death. Yesterday M>\ Stan ford held ?n inquest at,the house before a jury c n«ist,ii g of Mees>s John \lyno t (Foreman), Arthur Ambtiry, J o hi Irwin, W, O. So'e, M. Kamvm, and J. •J. Harke-, when r,ho above fan's w* re brought out ia evidence given by Mrs Earp and Dr. W.tlk r; the verdict being in accordance with tho evidence. 'J'l,9 deceased leaves a wife, asm growr, up, and thres daughte-s, who hiv. very great sympathy in thj 1 ss they have sustained.