SUICIDE OR A DOCTOR
Press Association. AUCKLAND, yesterday. Benjamin Rowsell, a man about 42 /ears, committed suicide last nigbt. He was a medical man, and held in high esteem by a large circle of friends, to whom his tragic death caused a great shock. He had been travelling in the South more especially with a view to study elephantitis. He had been in Auckland for the past eighteen months, and was especially well known as secretary to the St. George’s Rowing CJlub. The proprietor of the Commercial Hotel, witli whom Rowsell had been staying, received a letter this morning, stating that his body would be found either in St. Stephen’s cemetery, Parnell, or at Orakei, -and asking the proprietor to communicate with the police. Rowsell’s body was found in Parnell cemetery. Rowsell apparently committed suicide by ocison. It is understood he had been embarrassed in money matters^
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2105, 13 June 1907, Page 3
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147SUICIDE OR A DOCTOR Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2105, 13 June 1907, Page 3
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