SINGULAR SUICIDE.

A strange suicide took place at Kew on May 6, when Mr. Frederick Edward Walter committed self-destruction by taking strychnine. The deceased was engaged as bookkeeper to the firm of John Sanderson and Co., wool merchants, of this city. The deceased was arrested on the 2nd May, on a charge of embezzlement. He was brought before the City Police Court and remanded until the 7th, bail being allowed in two sureties of £1,000 each. Since his arrest he and his wife had been living at Williamstown. On May 6 he went to his residence at Kew, and after taking lunch went upstairs to his bedroom about half-past 3 o'clock, saying he was going to lie down. About 5 o'clock the Rev. R. Appleton called to see him, when he was found lying on his bed quite dead ; close beside him was a tumbler containing a mixture of sugar and strychnine. He had exhibited the greatest power of will, for though the effect of strychnine is known to cause the greatest agony and contortion of the body, the bed upon which he lay was not the least disturbed. The jury found that the deceased committed suicide by taking strychnine while of sound mind. The known defalcations amount to £6,000.