SUICIDE AT LONG BUSH

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10669, 26 June 1912, Page 5

SUICIDE AT LONG BUSH

The Carterton' News of yesterday says:— ;N T ews avals' .received in Carterton lute last night thai ivraan, had 'taken, his life at Langkish. Ocbstahle Carmody (left .by -motor car at d'.evon o'clock. It appeal:© thai; a married (man .named J. T. Smwr-t left his home tebewd yesterday- morning to 'round:v.p some-sheep on Ims fairm. As he did mot return at 5 p.m., his ©on, aged (between 10 and 11 yea:©, was sent to searoh for him. He< cmxe mpon the Uead body elf; his father near seme \serub three miles from home. H:g throat wa.s badly cut. B-side th,e ,body •lay ia 'sheath £niife> and a sharpenincr stone. ' The J;;ttlc rMlow at mwe returned to his mother and ccmanuaicaIted the sad-news. The police were (then sent'fori With the helo of Messrs Jas. Strang,, D. McPhcc, Mal-intc'sh, MJalvenzie;, Crawford., P. Tattle, and bthers, th& body .was convoyed oveir very rewgh country to his homestead, •from whence it was brought into ,C'e.vtelr.ton- at albout. 4 n,.m. this morning. No icausc is assigned as a. reason for the deed. An- inquest, will be held tomorrow imorning at 10 o'clock. Deceased had lately exchanged his farm for one up the country, and was very eliou-% leaving for h!is new homo. He deaivee a .wife and sevoit .children, the i eldest being 11 yeairs of 'age.