Sydney Morning Herald 10 Aug 1888.
" The City Coroner (Mr. H. Shiell, J.P.) held on inquest at the Balmain Cottage Hospital yesterday, touching the death of a young man named Livingstone David Carncgy Auldjo, who died in the institution early on Wednesday morning. Louis Carnegy Auldjo, residing at Birkenshaw-terrace, Rowntree-street, Balmain, deposed that the deceased was his brother, and was 23 years of age, a native of India ; deceased had been a clerk in an insurance office in Edinburgh, and came to this colony about two months ago ; since his arrival he had been eccentric in his manner, and on more than one occasion led witness to believe that he contemplated suicide, as he said that for the last four years he had been tired of his life; de- ceased went to his bed between 7 and 8 o'clock on the night of the 2nd instant, and between 3 and 4 o'clock the following morning,witness heard , him moving about in his room and groaning; the door of the room was fastened, but an entrance was effected by force, after which, the gas being lit, deceased was seen , walking about in a corner of the apartment, with his face smeared with blood; a razor, also covered in blood, was picked up off the floor; Dr. Graham was sent for, and on his arrival the deceased was put to bed, when witness noticed that his brother's throat was cut, and on asking him why he had done it, deceased was understood to say, " I played the fool ; " he was subse quently. removed to the Balmain Cottage hospital by the police, and remained then until he died. Dr. Graham, who examined the deceased, stated that there was a wound about 6in in length in his throat, and the windpipe was severed the cause of death was exhauston consequent upon haemorrage from an inflamation of the wound in his throat. A verdict was returned in accordance with the medical testimony, the said wound being self-inflicted." |