SUICIDE IN CAMBRIDGE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2274, 5 February 1887, Page 2

SUICIDE IN CAMBRIDGE.

MR A. LOURIE HANGS HIMSELF.

The inhabitants of Cambridge were greatly astonished on Thursday morning to hear that Mr Adolph Lourie had been found hanging in his stable. The deceased was well-known throughout the whole of the Waikato, formerly as the agent of W. S. Laurie and Co., of Auckland, and latterly as traveller for Captain Souter, who, when he took over the premises of the Co-opera-tive Society, engaged the deceased to work the outlying districts. He was a very quiet and temperate man, rather reserved, and spoke with a foreign accent. He mack very few friend. , !, and on the other hand had no enemies that we are aware of. He is considered by most people to have been a sharp, shrewd man of business, and one who would make his way in the world. His employer (as will be seen in his evidence at the inquest) speaks in the highest terms of his business capabilities, and paid him a good salary. The deceased lived in a cottage in Alpha-street, adjoining the Colonial Bank property. During the last six weeks Mrs Lourie lias been staying in Auckland, where she had been under the care of some of the most skilful doctors. She was a passenger to Cambridge by yesterday's train, and seemed quite prostrated with grief. Mr and Mrs Lourie had adopted a son, who is now about six years ,of age. A more determined suicide we never heard of, the deceased putting oue handkerchief in his mouth, and tying another tightly round over it so that he could not cry out when he committed the dreadful deed. The cord was carefully adjusted round two of the rafters of the stable, and everything so arranged that after taking the fatal plunge he should be silent. It was impossible to save his life. The face of the deceased was rather black, but was not by any means the disagreeable spectacle one would expect, and the hands wore tightly clenched, as if in great pain. The rest of the particulars can be gathered from the evidence given at the inquest.