TIRED OF LIFE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7934, 25 September 1905, Page 2

TIRED OF LIFE

MAN OF MKANS SUICIDES, (Per Press Association.) HUONH'KIM, Sept. 21. On .Saturday afternoon one of tho patients of the hospital, while wandering over the grounds of the institution, found a few chains, away from the building the body of a man, Frederick Gordon Williams, 45 years of age Deceased had apparently shot/ himself through the head with a revolver which was lying alongside Him. He purchased the revolver in town a few days previously, and evidently committed the fatal act m Thursday, on, which day he l e ft j,j a home, which is some miles out oi town, saying that he would arrange for a health trip to Australia. In the deceased's pockets were found a sum of money awl a Savings Bank too with a credit of £7O, and it is also known Unit he was in receipt of an .■nsuranee annuity of 30s weekly and was to draw a policy of £6OO in a lew months. A scrap of paper, on which he had r,, nci Hcd his name and address, was also found on his lioay. Williams suffered much from insomnia. He lived with his brother on a farm near Blenheim for som i years, and was unmarried. He spent twenty years in Australia.