A HORRIBLE SUICIDE.
MAN BLOWN UR BY DYNAMITE,
Press Association. FEILDING, March 19. A mail named Frederick Ila-se, aged 28, committed suicide at 0.30 this morning by blowing himself up with dynamite in an old wharo at Taoinii, a few miles from Feilding. It was a particularly horrible affair. The wharo where the suicide took place had a wooden chimney, which was completely blown out, and the lining was splintered everywhere. Insido tho room were .pieces of llesh and organs of tho human body. In one corner there was part of tho held, and under sonio of the timbers part of the body from tho waist downwards.
Yesterday deceased purchased a coil of dynamite fuse anil some dynamite in Feiilding. Deceased was well known as a quiet, inoffensive, and hard-working man, •anil had no enemies.
On his body was found a letter addressed to his mother, brothers, and sisters, stating that a certain person, named, had been quizzing him of tilings lie never did, and he was going to another land. Ho also left >a document, evidently intended as a will, leaving certain sums of money owing by deceased to his relatives.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2144, 20 March 1908, Page 2
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192A HORRIBLE SUICIDE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2144, 20 March 1908, Page 2
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