SHOCKING SUICIDE IN SYDNE

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 1 April 1881, Page 2

SHOCKING SUICIDE IN SYDNE

♦ The Daily Telegraph of March 7 gives the particulars of a shocki suicide which was committed Saturday morning, whilst Pitt stre was thronged with people burrvil to their different places of busine About eight o'clock the attention several of the passersnby was attract to the presence of v man who w seen leaning oyer the parpet of Bel Chambers, a height of 50r't, from t ground. After gazing below for af< minutes, he was noticed to mount t top of the parapet, and * walk toai fro in a very excited manner, a then sit down, with his feet bangii over the footpath. By this time large crowd bad collected, and it b came apparent that the man was io position of great danger, t»a h&w evidently in a state that rendered hi unable to take care of himself. Toe sp was inaccessible by a ladder, and t man seemed to be watching t excitement of the crowd beneath, w were undecided how to act. At tl time Constable Chicken came up»a at once saw that prompt action * necessary. He entered the bttUdjt accompanined by another constai and mounted the stairs tothero On reaching the skylight it was fou broken, and Chicken, who is a pow ful determined man, swung hima through it up on to the roof- He i unable, from the formation of the r to see either the parapet or the m but whilst cautiously creeping along the spo,f where he had seen him, w the intention of Beijing and drag 31 him into a safe? pasition, the consta beard a cry of horror from the cro btlow, and at once comprehended tl the man had thrown himself into t the street below, TphiV he after war fouud to be true, for withic a fi minutes of Chicken's entering t front door the man stood up, *nd, wit out the slightest hesitation, jump almost in the middle of th* borrifl crowd beneath bim. Ha fell on t pavement with a horrible orash, and wh picked op presented a dreadful sight, t bones of several of his limbs protrudi through bis clothes. Constable Chick procured a cab and conveyed him to t Sydney Infirmary, where upoo ezamio tion, it was fottod that his injuri wero of so serious a character as preclude any hopes of his recovery, at he died within a few boars of admissio never having regained consciousness. was ascertained that bis came wi Edward Stombks, an engraver, occapyii offices in Bell's Chambers 3 and a lad bis employ, named William A. Men field, states tbat deceased bad bee drinking heavily for the part week, an was suffering from delirium tremens.