AUCKLAND.
July 7A shocking case of suicide was. discovered here to-day. About a week ago a man. aged about, sixty, named John Beit leased a Ixiilding m ffigh-stjreet, Stated thai h.e.'-rfiV quired it for storing samples. i.'.'s!jbifl, r mornipg, the owneij called- : for renti but finding the: inner door lockad^ suspicion was roused and and h'eini^; formed the police constable, " 'wlio bui*Rt m the door and found 'B.eit'» corpse lying on the'^oor of the inner raqm fuljy' dressed' and a " chSrabered'reYolver m.his rigHt hatiJl a bullet tfoun ; d*in his_ iight:te r in ; p^. The' fact' that only : four iof'tK^ chambers were loaded slioweS '$afo jijie rn^n l\a.d ahat hiia-s ' self, lieceaaed wa;S German, aa^ camq Q"i ; th fQW r ye^ra ago ft'^m from Westland. He was at. theThames until recently, having been engaged as a clerk to Ehrenfrie.4' Bros., brewers. It is not known if he had any i-elatives m the colony. ' ■ •
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Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1238, 8 July 1884, Page 2
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152AUCKLAND. Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1238, 8 July 1884, Page 2
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