ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2752, 17 November 1887, Page 2

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

(Prom'the Pahiatua Star,') . On Monday afternoon, .Willi.ato. Hull, who- had. But recently btga adjudged a bankrupt, attempted to commit suicide in his own. house by suffocating himself with the charcoal, We have no wish tofufther hurt [the feelings of , the' family,. ;but. ■it.is necessary to give a few/particulara 'of the Mimnuer. : in ; which Hull ;, proceeded to carry' out his plan.-.f sl* Hull went to Woodville in. .the v iug, leaving her husband inicnatgi*? of? the house and children, he.exprejstng a wish - that she, should go rathdr-than biqgfilf, it being on business with tho bankruptcy. . Soon .uftj&Tiis wife's departure, Hull seems . .'to have commenced preparing for the daedj:'as an inspection of; the room Where he was found, discloses- the fact ttiat .he must, hare. spent several 1 hoi|g|a getting things ready. Three .(jfihe children while, two others: wero left at home: with their father, but iheyweve-too young to notice anything unilffual going on; in fact, ono was just able to toddle,fand the other is un .idiot. Shortly..after four o'clock ono of tho littlfl girls wto had 'co'uio lioine.from; school- ctirne out of.tUe liouae crying, and sai'dtlifire'wai ; Boineonß inside trying-to • frighten; her by uiakidg'funny uoises. The -ipotiou pfrfcbe persons- jiraiiud,' amortgab whom ' weri' Brigg?,i and, Blacky who ;on littering. heard groans': iti'tbe front They tried the .door, but itwaa. locked;-anil on inspecting/tho \vindojM> they found- that blaukets and blitjff completely .prevented anything being sQßiii n gl tovi tako tho reaponsibility of breaking open th» door, Conptahle .Cullinano was immediately senfior, who was on the spot in'a few , He knocked at tta door and iiiquired if anyone was inside, , .but receiving no reply, burst the door o|en, and there lay Hull oh .Mnrn unconscious, with his feet , near the door. Constable'Culjinime. dragged him out and took him to the .back of : the building in .'the open .air, where, ; aftof a' time the urifortunato man came , around; When.the door was 'burst la. the fumes of andthe heat was sufficient to take one's breath away, and bad; it not -been that Hull was lying face downwards he. most have perished ; indeed, a few • mort minutes would have ended bis career in any case. Close to his head was a bath with a few inches of water in it, and laid across the top of a large'tin,' about, six inches deepffjtoo an oil drum, ..both full of burning charcoal. Thejoom has ajre place in it, but all draughts had been securely ■kipped by nailing up blankets,: about seventeen of which had been used for the purpose, the wall being lined with them. Great precautions, hftji been taken apparently to prerent being burnt! for besides the ' water in the bath,, .there was a bucketful of water in the room ;and the conclusion arrived at by those who inspected the. arrangements to that Hull lad' placed -the witer handy in; case the house took fire, when anyone entering could have possibly snbdued the flames without.the necessity,for rushing about for; water. Hull hat' now. nearly recovered, and was ibis morning takon to Maßtortori by Constable Cullinano. where he. will. be -brought before the ; Magistrate foV attempting -his life; and . possibly- other charges will'be preferred ajgaihst hiiu. . His life was insured in the Government £SSQ, and jn the- Australian MuVail for £BSO, making a total ,of £9OO. The - building was. also insured for £400; office iiob.k-hown, In answer te a (juostioapuf Constable Uulli* nnno ae tp' why>he tried to take'his life, Hull replied, that it was on account of bis recent ' Mrs Hull • returned , from- Woodville . wfl&. jicr -. father about half an hour 'asjr the o^urrence.'