SUICIDES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9040, 25 January 1908, Page 5

SUICIDES.

MAN BLOWN TO PIECES. FRAGMENTS SCATTERED IN ALL DIRECTIONS. BY TELEGRAPH —rRESS ASSOCIATIONNEW PLYMOUTH, January 24. A vary determined suicide occurred on the beach near the public baths at 10 45 o'clock this morning." Aloud explosion was heard, but no notice was taken of it, as it was supposed that rock blasting operations were being carried on in the vicinity. A little later a child told the baths caretaker that she had found a man's ear. A search was then made, and the trunk of a man's body was found with the head and arms blown off. Fragments were scattered in all directions. One arm was found .in Hine Street, fully one hundred yards away. A linen collar was found which bore the name of A. J. Burgess, who is a stations in business here. There are other indications that the boiy is his, though it has not yet been absolutely identified. Apparently the man had placed his head on a charge of dynamite, having previously lighted the fuse attached to it. A WOMAN HANGS HERSELF. AUCKLAND, January 24. A married woman named Ellen Haynes, 42 years of age, residing in Cox Street, Ponsonby, committed | jsuiaide by hanging herself, to-day. j Some four months ago the deceased bad a severe attack of influenza, and had since suffered from frequent fits at depression. SAD CASE OF DROWNING. LORD KITCHENER'S SISTER-IN-LAW. , Received J'anuary 24, 8.15 a.m. NEW YORK, January 23. -» Lord Kitchener's sister-in-law, '-" -widofl of Arthur Kitchener, while suffering from insomnia, climbed through a port-hola of the steamer Magdalena, at Colon, and was "drowned. She was f about to visit Colonel Kitchener (Lord Kitchener's brother and heir-presumptive) at Jamaica.