A SHOCKING SUICIDE.
Per Press Association. Dunedin, Auguit it. Ambrose Phillips, till quite recently a : baker at Caversham, threw himself beneath the wheels of a train at Caversham to-night. He was cut in two, and i ' disembowled before the eyes of his wife, '' who was with him on the. platform. Mr . and Mrs Phillips had returned by the i* train from Mosgiel. The act, whicff as sudden as it was unexpected, wag 3 witnessed by two railway officials wln> were not in time to prevent the tragedy. '■# deceased was a baker for 30 year# In Caversham, where hb was much respoat- -rf ed. He possessed a particularly san- :'?j guine temperament till quite lately, when he sold his business, after which . <'■ he became melancholy, and complained of having sold it at a loss; The act waß apparently unpremeditated, and it is thought that deceased was suddenly seized with a fit of madness. His wife is in a state of collapse. Deceased was sixty-one years old, and had a grown-up family of sons and daughters.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 3 August 1907, Page 2
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174A SHOCKING SUICIDE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 3 August 1907, Page 2
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