SUICIDE AT TE AWAMUTU.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1811, 14 February 1884, Page 2

SUICIDE AT TE AWAMUTU.

A •YOUNG man named Morgan, u stoker on the tram running hem liere, committed siiicide on Tuesday, by shooting himself with a gun. It appeals he was at the railway picnic on Monday, and on the leturn was noticed to be moody and unlike Ins usual self. On Tuesday morning he lefused to pfo to work, pleading tli.it he was unwell. The engine driver consequently took the cleaner with him to do the work. In the evening, w hen the latter retui ned, he went to the house (on the line) where he and deceased resided together to get his tea, when he found his mate lying dead. From what I can learn, he put the muzzlo of the gun into his mouth, and pulled the trigger, blowing the back of his head off. Death of course must have been instantaneous. It is said— with what truth I cannot say — that he met some young girl at the picnic, to whom he hctd been paying his addresseb for about t\\ o years, but that bhe declined to ha\o anything to say to him. It is supposed this must have preyed on his mind and unsettled his reason, causing him to commit the act. Morgan was one of the last men one would have expected to commit suicide, as he was geneially of a cheerful disposition. However, all facts connected with the case will come out at the inquest. — (Own Coirespondent.)

[BY TELEfiIUPH. — OWN COKUESPON'DENr.] Auckland, Wednesday Night. With reference to the suicide of the railway fireman at To Awamutu, the father of the deceased, Robert Morgan, lessee of the Domain, who resides at Newmarket, states that he was not aware that any rupture had occurred between the rash young man and his sweetheart, and the girl, who also li\es at Newmarket, is in great distress over the tragedy. She had, ie appeals, gone to the railway picnic with another young man, and this, or some other little circumstance distressing to lovers had preyed upon young Morgan's mind, and led him in a moment of desperation to commit the fatal deed.