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Shocking Suicide.(Friday's Bindaiikf.o Mail.)Oar Gin Gin Correspondent sends us particulars of a sh. eking suicide, which L*n sent a thrill «tf horror through that .juicl district. William Bishop i*a lengtb^Dian on the Bundaberg-Mount Tory lino, lie has for aome years pint resided with bin wife, «nd two little daughter*. aged twelve end two years respectively, a quarter of a mile from Daylcsford station, in it home abutting the lino and kcvcu inilo* dint mr from Gin Gin. lie is a icon comfortably otf. having heeu empl-iy-*J in the Department for fifteen year*. Of eobcr, ntetdy habiCt and an obliging nature In* has made himself generally respected and liked. His wife, a woman iu the upper thirtie*, was of a cheerful disposition mid had never given her husband the slightest reason to suppose she wa? capable of premeditating and carrying into execution « ra^h a?r. On Tuesday morning .t ■oven o'clock, after breakfast. Biabp kissed his wife and went off to his w..rk. Previously she had complained of a head-ache so he made her a cup of to* and.liter on, when he offered her a see md she told him.nhewia “all right. At h-tlf-pa-r eight the eldest girl was sent to school and, when bidding good-bye, her mother said, apparently j ocularly, “you will not see mo again. Shortly aft-r four o'clock Bishop returned home, lock'd his trolly and entered the house to fir.d the body of his wife suspatided by :i h tiler r pe from the kitchen crojs beam, with ihe feet six inches from the floor. It had evidently been hanging for some hour*. as it w.m «juite stiff. The younger girl was pi tying in tho back yard with all the gates fastened, so that she could not stroll away. The sight of tho corpse completely upset Bishop *:;d he rushed Co the trolly to ro for assistance. Then h«- found he had left tho key behind. lie returned t • tho kitcheu, and, a« he » 4* stooping K pick up tin* key, the repo broke *ud tho body fell across him. Thu neighb .ra from every lt;|uarter, as the painful uowe spread,came with all speed, but, of course, nothing c uld be done, Kmjuiru-.s from tho aides', child only elicited this additional fact th it a few days ago Mrs. Bishop went with her down to *w -terhle. where, aomc months previously, her brother was drowned. The mother threw a t mo ini-the, little, water tbero and remarked 1 wonder if it is deep enough t«» drown me. Evidently the unfortunate wonnii broodod in secret over th* loss of her b y, and his death eventually upset h* r reason. The body was buried yesterday at Daylea-ford, a considerable concurs** of people •t'cndinj tho fuoeral. I*p« n Wednesday Meiers, Fleming and Thiele In Id sn official enquiry into the s»d ' ccurrei.ce, when tho husband and eldest daughter were ex intined, but their eviileuco fai'fti-shed no further information.
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Gympie Times and Mary River Mining Gazette
Gympie, Queensland, AU
Tue, Jun 08, 1897
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