THE CAMBRIDGE SUICIDE CASE.
It is now established beyond doubt that tho unfortunate man (leorge William Spicer, to whom we referred in our last issue, committed .suicide on Monday morning. On Sunday evening he m ent into the .shop of David Nesbitt, tailor, and, asking for wilting mateiial.s, wrote the following letter, and gave it him, with the lequest thai he .should gi\ c it to Mr Gillet of the National Hotel, but not until the following moi ning :—: —
Cambridge, 7th October, 1883. I respectfully request that you will write to Mrs J. Hcnshaw, No. 11. bt. M.iry's Hill, Stamford, Lincolnshire, and let hur know that Stumble-block is gone. —Yours respectfully, W\i. Geo Spici'r. The police have, since the occurrence, been engaged dragging the lher for the body, but without success. Spicer held the post of riding-master in the Dragoon Guards at Home, and was for some time attached to the 3rd Waikato Militia during the Waikato War.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1758, 11 October 1883, Page 2
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158THE CAMBRIDGE SUICIDE CASE. Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1758, 11 October 1883, Page 2
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