SUICIDE OF A CHEMIST.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2491, 28 June 1888, Page 2

SUICIDE OF A CHEMIST.

Mit Romukt Mohkm', head assistant in Mr J. Kdson's chemist's shop, Auckland, committed suicide on Tuesday morning, by taking a dose of prussie acid. He came down to business as usual, but appeared in depressed spirits, and he was shortly afterwards seen to make up a mixture with which he went upstairs. He was shortly afterwards found lying on a couch at the point of death. The following letter addressed to his wife was found on the table : — I could bear no longer the thought of doing hurt to the one who is so unspeakably precious to me. Good-bye, my darling wife; God will sustain and comfort you until we meet again, for in the spirit we cannot part. You have been a priceless treasure to me, and I am loth indeed to leave you thus; but my brain is undergoing a serious change, for on two occasions I have felt on tho very verge of irresponsibility. Oil ! far that timo when knowledge and obedience to our Heavenly Father shall be such as to preclude entirely all sorrow and physical suffering. Religion is our hope, darling, and it is the onlv hope for mankind—this conviction has steadily grown upon me, and I well know by the happiest oxpei ience how yon are sustained and made the dear creature you are by its power. All is light, thank God. Goodbye to all. The deceased was a middle-aged man with no family, and had been in Mr Edson's service for thirty years. Some time ago his brother was found drowned in tho Auckland harbour. [BY TKLKURAI'U—OW.V C'OKKESI'ONDENT.] Auckland, Last Night. Th« jury in the poisoning case returned a verdict amounting to temporary insanity, It was disclosed in evidence that Morlsy frequently changed his religious views, and was at one timo a vegetarian, and at •nother addicted to dieting- ou rats, |