WORRIED TO DEATH

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 195, 26 November 1910, Page 5

WORRIED TO DEATH

A DESPERATE SUICIDE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. Aaron Faigan, about 35 years of age, carrying on business as a tailor in Hanover street, committed suicide by cutting his throat. Mrs. Faigan states that her husband had been worrying for the last week over being called as a witness in the prosecution against Pollock on a charge of attempting to commit an unnatural offence. All this morning he was in a very nervous state, and talking of parting with his wife. At one o'clock Faigan saw Detective Thomson in Castle street, and appeared to think the officer was going to arrest him for some offence. From that time until 1.50 p.m. he appeared to be in a state of nervous collapse, and his wife took razors from him twice. Faigan then said he must go to an outhouse, and he asked his wife not to follow him. She went only as far as the back yard, thinking he had nothing with him with which he could injure himself. Deceased stood with his back to the door for a while, and then suddenly turned round and slammed the door. Mrs. Faigan hurried to him, and a struggle ensued, but she was unable to prevent him from cutting his throat with a knife.

Mrs. Faigan also stated that the deceased had been worried over the receipt of an anonymous letter demanding money under a threat of charging him with a serious offence. He had been further worried over administering the estate of his father, of which he was one of the trustees.