DETERMINED SUICIDE. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, Monday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2249, 7 December 1886, Page 2

DETERMINED SUICIDE. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, Monday.

Ayolng nnn named Theodore Behern% committed suicide this morning in a bedroom .it Harbour View Hou«e. Death occurred by a pistol shot fired into the brain front the right temple. Beherns appears to have been a good-looking young fellow, 22 years of age, with dark moustache. He had been until lately at Kangiriri, where with some other young fellows, he had been working on the Government relief works, planting forest trees. He came out with two other well connected young fellows from England m the Ruapehu two months sincB, and appears to have been of a quiet manner and almost a total abstainer. He had a bad attack of typhoid fever some years ago, and ne\er appeared really right since, being at times, as his friends say, quite funny. Mrs Fletcher went to call deceased, who often lay in bed late, and on opening the door she found deceased sitting on the floor alongside his bed, with his back against a chair, and hi* head leaning forward over hi* body. The pistol lay in a great pool of slowly trickling blood in which the body lay. His pyjamas were saturated with blood that had tuckled from a wound on the right temple. On the table lay a letter addressed to one of his friends who came out with deceased (Mr \V. Cooper), which, on being opened, \va3 found to contain instructions for the money left by deceased at the B ink, s-une £1)0, to be divided amongst his three friends, Me*sra Wray, Claude Young and W. Cooper, and finishes up by "damning this confounded country."