SAD SUICIDE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 4010, 12 January 1892, Page 2

SAD SUICIDE.

" Let mo rot whore X Die " A very determinedeaseof Buicide occurred near Ipswich on Christmas Eve, when a man named August E, Key committed euicido by shooting himself with a revolver. Between 10 and 11 o'clock a boy named Ernest Younger, ported to Mr James Johnston, 'bus proprietor, that the body of a man was lying in a dry gully at the back of the reservoir of the 'lpswich waterworks road, and three or, four miles from Ipswick. Mr Johnston drove into the police station and informed. the police of the report • made 1 to him. Mounted-constable Murray went to the place and found the body of a man with a bullet wound through the chest, the ball having passed light through him, A revolver was lying at his feet, one chamber having been discharged and four loaded. He had the body conveyed to the morgue at North Ipswich, where a post mortem examination was made by the Govn eminent medical officer, who certified that deatli was caused by the bullet wound referred to, The body was identified by ex-Detective Parkes as tbat of Augustus Key, aged about 30 years and unmarried. The deceased was employed up to Friday, thelßth, by M'Keller & Co, painters Bnd decorators, of Queen-SI, Brisbane, but. was seen in the metropolis since that date, From papers found in his pockets there can be no doubt but that it wis'a oiso of suicide.': Mr Kellar called at Ipswich, and identified, the hat and clothes as belonging ?o deceased, who was employed by.him' for .a number,of,i years, ( who had always, borne a good, character. " When' Mounted-consiablo'-:Murray -.found tho; befdy it ivaa;, I|te^ allyr c6Vere'd; witli' ants; Amongst" 1 ettcis ; in r deceased pocket was-one. i written ! with lead pencil, evidently against ft tpco or log,

which ran as follows;—"If ever I should be found,' let me rot where I lie, if it is no annoyance to tlm neighbourhood." : From;!this jit would appear that the act was ,a premeditated one,. Deceased hnd no relatives in-tlie colony but had friends in Brisbane,