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StnoiDK on the MiLLicRMTKArLWAY Line -Our Mount Gambit!r correspondent writes under dato of November 11:—News was rnooWtul here yesterday that during the forenoon Henry Carthew, a middlo-agod □kid living at Tautanoola, hud committed suicido by throwing himself nndiT the railway motor ear a* it wn* passing his reai-dcneo. a quarter of a mile from that township, on the way to Millicent. He was observed by a man named Edmundson to jump up from the long grasa alongside the railway and throw hi use If under the wheel*, and there wo* of course no time to atop the car until it hud pushed over him. When picked up the mm's body mu terribly mangled, and quit ’ do id. ’it wus carried U» tln hotel, where an Impic-t was held on the return of the motorcar from Millicent. Mr. A. K. Tel for, J.P., was coroner. The jury found that the docnt-ad 'committed suicide whilo iu u statu of temporary insanity. Carthew wa* formerly a pucker «»n the railway, but last hi* billet ultouf two years ago because ho dill nol euro about being shifted from Tautonooiu to some wild spot north of Narroeoorto. Since then ho has lieeu doing work for tho people in the neighborhood and h.iu Uwq u«istol by his family. Hut hy became dewn-hoarted and dissatisfied, and resolved to put an end to himself. Last Sunday ho took a doao of ahoup dip, hut failol to accomplish his wiih. ^nil under tho cure of his wife and Hr. Cooke won getting hotter, l»ut he was not to bo thwarted in his foolish ru3olvo.
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Naracoorte Narracoorte Herald
Naracoorte, South Australia, AU
Tue, Nov 13, 1906
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