A SENSATIONAL AFFAIR

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 307, 5 February 1910, Page 5

A SENSATIONAL AFFAIR

ARREST AND SUICIDE. TRAGIC END OF MA,,OR SAUNDERS. By Telegraph.—Press' Association. llarton, Last Night. Yesterday, at Rata, Major Saunder.-. well known throughout. tile district iu connection \yith military matters, was arrcfeted by Constable liray, of llunt.>rville, on a charge of having commit!.'d an unnatura" oil'ence. While being conveyed to Hunterville, Major Saunders suddenly dropped dead on the road. An inquest was held at Rata to-day. and the verdict was returned that death was due to syncope, through some poison. A portion of the internal organs will be sent to the public analyst. Deceased left a number of letters i"lating to the ease, showing"that suicide was premeditated. A lIOME ARISTOCRAT. Wanganui. Last Night. The Wanganui Chronicle's travelling correspondent wires that a rumor in the Hunterville district says that Major Saunders was in reality the owner of a title and a member of a weil-kno.Vu English aristocratic family. According to the correspondent the residents of the district in which Saunders livd claim that the known circumstances of his life are such as to tally with those of the individual with whom rumor identifies himself.