SUICIDE AT DUNEDIN.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 298, 24 December 1901, Page 2

SUICIDE AT DUNEDIN.

A LAW CLERK SHOOTS HIMSELF. (By Tolograph—Press Association.) Dunedin, la3t night. Lawrence Edward Hindson, articled clerk to Mr W. C. MacGregor, shot himself on the premises where he was employed. Mr Hindson, sen., who visited this colony in March of last year, had booked for a return visit to see his son, and on the day of his departure overbalanced himself in London, falling to the bottom of an area and breaking his neck. No doubt the news of his father’s death affected young Hindson. It is understood he came into a considerable amount of money under his father’s will. Later. The young man’s body was found lying face down in a pool of blood, with a revolver close by. The revolver was a fivechambered one, and contained two loaded and two unloaded cartridges, while the fifth was empty. There was a small wound over tho right eye. Deceased suffered from nervo troubles, and had given up tho law classes at the University owing to ill health. He received word not long ago that his father, a London stockbroker, was killed by falling over a cliff, and this depressed him. So far as is known, he has no relations in tho colony. He was 22 years of age.