A TRAGIC SUICIDE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 10 April 1907, Page 2

A TRAGIC SUICIDE

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HANK .MANAIiKU SHOOTS HIMSELF. IN 'UIH I'IiICSKNCK OF lIIS WIFE. IVr Press Association. Auckland, April llciryfuiiiow, of the Hank j ot Xew Zealand at Whnngiirci, commit- 1 Ihi suicide by shooting himself at Pott- *1 soilby ill noon to-day. "j Il«! vilived from Whangaroi this morn- 1 »'K accompanied by his wife, and went ■ ti> stay at tlie residence of his wife's bister, Mid. linker, in Ilackctl atreet, 4 I'.msonby. .. h :': On unival a< Jli>. Baker's hou,-,e, deems? I mention 'u that the tlip fjo W . \\ liitii,;arei in the bout had »pM't 'li ,i. and said lie had been walking up :.id down the deel; all night, Ift r said lie t'.'H 'ic .(Well tlint he could na' Jin to New Plymouth with his brotherin law «u he li.ul intended, but would v return to Whangarei by the boat leaving ,;8 Auckland Ibis evening. . % He i.'inained in the house for two \ hours, and when he left about ten"' 1 * o'clo .'i;, he told bis wife ho would go to ■' Hi.? ei y U' see the local manager of tlw bank. 7 When lie returned to the house about '' noon, bis wife was standing on the ver- ; andah. As be approached the house, lie look a pistol from his pocket, and, in front of his wife, levelled it up to his right tempi j and pulled, the trigger. The bullet passed right through his head, and he fell, dying almost immediately. Dr. .Tones, who was making a call close by, was called in, but could only pronounce life extinct. • Debated, who was 40 years of age, had been twenty years in the servfee of the bunk, and liad been nt Whanearel for the last three years. He bad been somewhat strange In maimer lately, and had suffered fromsi* ill-health. The latter fact is said toSfc have wiiilied liim. No other reason to know i lor the act. He leaves a widow nnd a twelve-year-old daughter. He h#d no other near relatives in the colony so far as is known. 1 The deceased was well-known in Taranaki, having been for ten years, nnd up till the time of his transfer to Whangarei three ycai'B ago, manager of the Bank of New ■Zealand at Stratford, where.he is understood to hold a good deal of property.