SUPPOSED CASE OF SUICIDE AT CAMBRIDGE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1757, 9 October 1883, Page 2

SUPPOSED CASE OF SUICIDE AT CAMBRIDGE.

Ykil'i:iu)AY morning Constable Biennan was informed that (feoige Spicoi, aged about fifty, and unman ied, who for somo time ]»ast has boon employed as bookkeeper at the National Hotel, was missing, and that it was generally thought he had oniimtted suicide by throw ing himself into the Waikato 1 iver. It appeals that Kpicor hid foi a few days previous been drinking lathei heavily, and that on Sunday aftoinoon he Aias found lying on the bank of the Waikato l'lvin 1 , near tho old wharf, and in clangorous proximity to the water. The pei son who disco veied him in this position roused him up, and told him that if he was not caieful he would roll into the livei and get di owned. Pie leplied that it would not much matter if ho did fall into the liver. He was then persuaded to go home to tho National Hotel and go to bed, (letting up about i o'clock yesterday morning he left the hotel, and, not letunung to bieakfast, suspicions were aioused, and the belief that he had committed Miicide Avas to a gieat extent stimulated by the ciicnnistance of the pre\ious day. Constable Brennan wa-> immediately communicated with on the matter, and that officer proceeded to where the missing man had been found lying the pievious day. Here he found a hat, a stick, a pipe and ii matchbox, all of which turned out to be the property of Spicei. Theie were no footprints near the bank of tho liver to indicate that the, unfortunate man had walked down to the water's edge, but it would t>o.em as if he had rolled clown over the bank, wheie the water i& very deep and the cm lent very rapid. When brought home to tho hotel the pievious day, Smcer did not say anything to aiouse suspicion, or to lead to the belief that he was thiniung of committing Huioicki. Tt wjw> not unusual for him to get up at 4 o'clock in the morning, so nothing .suspioious was attached to this cii cum.stance. The police were engaged during yesterday evening dragging the river for the body,