SUICIDE OF A TEACHER.
Intelligence reached town to-day that Mr Howard Randle, schoolmaster at Shag Point, committed suicide last night by shooting himself with a revolver through the head. No further particulars are yet to hand.
The late Mr Howard Randle was trained as a pupil-teacher in London. He taught in private schools at Home, and on his arrival in the colony received an assistant-mastership at the Dunedin Boys’ High School. In 1885 he was appointed by the Otago Education Board to the position of head-master of the Moeraki School. In December, 1888, he was promoted to the headmastership of the Inch Valley School, and in October, 1892, was appointed to the position of head-master of the Pukeiwitahi (Shag Point) School, which he occupied up to the time of his death. He was a married man, with a family.
The deceased leaves a wife (who is a well-known writer of poetry, having been a contributor for many years to the columns of the ‘Witness’ under the nom do plume of “Wychelm”) and six children, of whom one is in the telegraph service, one postmistress at Shag Point, a daughter is articled clerk in Mr S. Solomon’s office, another child is a scholarship-holder at the High School, and two other children are at home. -Evening Star, 3/10/1899.
FUNERAL NOTICE
The Funeral of the late HOWARD RANDLE will leave his late Residence, Schoolhouse, Shag Point, on THURSDAY, 5th October, at 1 o'clock. -Otago Daily Times, 4/10/1899.
The evidence adduced at the inquest on the body of Howard Randle, schoolmaster at Shag Point, showed that on Monday night the deceased was very excitable and restless. He kept playing with a revolver, said that there were men outside the house trying to break into the house, and would not allow his daughter to light the lamp. He went with his daughter to a neighbor's house, but did not remain with her, and when she returned subsequently he was not at home. In the morning his body was found as already described. The evidence showed that deceased was an extremely temperate man, and that his conduct was that of a person in depressed spirits. So noticeable had this been that Mr Jas. Ross, an intimate friend, had written to Mrs Randle, suggesting that she should come to him at Shag Point. Mr Ross, however, had no suspicion from the general demeanor of deceased that he contemplated committing suicide. The jury found that deceased committed suicide during a fit of temporary insanity. -Oamaru Mail, 7/10/1899.
PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.
(From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, November 26.
A wide circle of friends in Otago and at the Otago University will learn with regret of the death, of Miss Eva Marie Randle, which occurred in tragic circumstances on the 15th inst. at the residence of her mother, 23 Nevern square, Kensington. The deceased young lady, who was a daughter of the late Mr: Howard Randle, and was 29 years of age, graduated M.A. at the Otago University in 1902. Since coming to England some years ago she had been reading for the law, but she had lately been compelled, by the state of her health, to give up studying. On the evening of the 15th she was writing a letter to a friend in India, relating her experience of London life, and then she went upstairs to dress for dinner. Soon after she was found lying in the back area, dead. It was stated at the inquest that Miss Randle, after partly undressing, had gone from her bedroom to the top room, and, moving a dressing table from the window, she had got out on to the leads and had fallen a distance of 50ft. -Otago Daily Times, 5/1/1910.
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