SUICIDE.
BY TETiSi.IS.APK —PRESS ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, July 23.
A labouring man named John William Walsh, aged about 38, com-! mitted suicide in the harbour this evening by jumpi"g off the outer tee of the Queen's Wharf. The act was deliberate, the man stripping .off all his clothes and leaving them on the wharf under a couple of bricks. He was seen to jump in by a stevedore on the steamer Victoria. The body was soon recovered, but life was extinct. While the police were applying artificial respiration the man's wife arrived, having discovered a note in his bedroom saying that his clothes would be found on the wharf.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9150, 24 July 1908, Page 5
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108SUICIDE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9150, 24 July 1908, Page 5
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