SINGULAR SUICIDE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1774, 9 August 1888, Page 4

SINGULAR SUICIDE.

Melbourne, July 31. A most remarkable case of suicide occurred at Footscray between Sunday evening and Monday morning, which was committed by a well-known former resident named Fredk. Wm. George. It was a singular repetition of a somewhat similar tragedy that occurred about eighteen months ago. In October, 1880, the deceased's wife, with her infant in her arms, committed suicide by jumping into a large underground tank of water, where both were drowned. Nine months after George married a second time, and went to live in Fitzroy. He had not visited Ins relations at Footscray for some months past, but early yesterday morning, on going out of the front of the house, his brother saw hanging on the fence an orercoat and a Paget coat, which he at once recognised as having been worn by his brother Frederick. He found a scrap of an old envelope pinned to the overcoat, and supposed to be addressed to his present wife, bearing the following words :—" Good bye; my body lies in the drain, Bennett's water-hole. Tell mother." The body of Frederick George was found in a water-hole, face downwards, the water, which was not enough to cover the body, being only nine inches deep. The face was forced deeply into the soft mud. He had evidently gone coolly up to the hole, divested himself of the articles named, and then plunged head foremost into the shallow water. The fact of the note found on Ihe coat having been written with ink, leads to the conclusion that the deceased had written it in Footscray with the deliberate intention of drowning himself about 200 yards from where his first wife had eighteen months previously drowned herself.