SUICIDES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 11628, 1 November 1887, Page 2

SUICIDES.

■' ' « PER UNITED PRKS3 ASSOCIATION. Auckland, October 31 Mrs Emma Field, widow, committed suicide by drowning herself in tbe Domain pond yesterday. She had been low spirited since the death of her husband three weeks ago. Feilding, October 31 Arthur Marshall, storeman at McMillan and Hunt's, Awahuri, hooked himself to death last night or early this morning. No cause has yet been assigned. An inquest will be held tomorrow. Wellington, Ootober 81 A painful oase of suicide occurred here just before 6 o'clock this evening. Late in the afternoon Mr Olapham received a note at the Government Buildings from Charles Taylor Upham, a youth aged 21, saying that his life was a reproaoh to him and a burden to others, and that he was going to shoot himself on the hill. Mr Clapham obtained Detective Walker's help, and the two scoured the hills behind the Tinakori Eoad, where he lived, without finding any trace of the young fellow. Upham, who was a clerk in the Australian Mutual Provident Society, was known to be of an excitable disposition, and of a rather weak intellect, a feeling from which several of the family suffered. This, and the fact that he had left another note of a similar import addressed to his mother, justified the anxiety felt; on his behalf. The search party returned towards the house, ,aftei; their vain search, and caught sight of the lad goiup in at the gate. They set i ff at a run, but immediately afterwards the report of a gun Bhowed that they were too late, and the detective arrived only in time to find that Upham had blown off one side of his face with a carbine, aud died at once. The carbine had been borrowed from a neighbour. On the body was a sheet of paper with several notes in pencil, one of which showed that he had actually been on the hills. Another said : " I have killed myself owing to money troubles •" The letter addressed •to Mr Olapham was lying in the buildings two hourß before ho received it, or probably the sad affair would have been prevented.