SUICIDE AT WAIHENGA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1155, 18 August 1882, Page 2

SUICIDE AT WAIHENGA.

, ; IFROM OjJR ?RE^|oj)p|S|oP..RNT.l A 'ißLEOßAiki'wasrreceiyed aiii-,30 yeater-. 'day-by gi? of;: to wjj , eall ing: him to Waitings, a S» njan had cut his throat.,'/. Constable;:Eooletnn", knowing liConstable Soiith t; was. away; ( (whose dig. tnot the suicide was cominif tad in), ; imitte-' : .diatply proceeded there wftK 1 the dbotrir, "when tKey found,' it as fob' true/ It appears that" Mr Philip Who ; has fqi 9:)png. : t{i|)g, post -bjen suferiDß from supposed i.iit«rjial|v,;,aiid I},as'been attended by l)'r Bey,'anq also' Wellington doctors, but whose-case-was a hopeful, ope, asked fys wife about half. pMt-plfivea.yesterday qiflrnißg to get; him soraehof soap; as soob ■ aa ahp left, the room he sjiut tj)e door.pn returning with it she fonria ' ' b®Bg able to*get in she went outsfdeand window, and on looking in som« ( 1?|6od .on the .floor. She ril'aii'.and\SartissjlwKdlw.ere.iiear at hand, ajidrffhql-nj]?gettthrough the window, fgnmj pay.Vlw.p thrift immediately tfilegraphedtp (JreyWn'fof ilie doctor, :).Tlii Constable reported finding tbe besido the.bed .with'his'face bnried in the hia .right.arm boin? doubled underneath him, .the.sleeve'of the'shirt being full of clotted nblood,-the throat waa out in a very deiternuned manner ( almost from ear to m, - ■ ' ' i : r!i

1 »i --- the cut measuring 9 inches in length, there being in fact .two distinct cuts.; The deceased, who was a left handed: man, had inflicted the wounds with his left hand with a razor. He, before his \ illnesß, was in the employ of Mr Martin . ■ as stookman, was about 36 years of been married about 12 months, having no family. Some time before his death h# expressed a wish that after he was.dead, a "post mortem" examination should be made on him, and as his friends' are anxious that the wish should be carried : out liji; .inquest on the bollyjv|l| b*e held to-day . -by-Dr.Spratt, the coroner./