Extraordinary Suicide.
A &UJMDE of a most unusual and determined chiracter took place lately at Herrings-pond-end. The wretched creature, who«e name was Lampslack, destroyed himself by firstly drinking three quarts of paraffin and then forcing lighted matches down his throat, until his whole inside was in a mass of flames. He afterwards mounted the roof of the parish church, and stripping the clothes from hi« body, stood in a state of nudity (presenting the appearance of a huge human ianterm), until he was entirely consumed from within. It is supposed that he was of unsound mind. —Future Times, 1990.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1857, 31 May 1884, Page 5
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155Extraordinary Suicide. Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1857, 31 May 1884, Page 5
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