Transcription
SUICIDE OF MR. HARVEY, THE PANTOMIMIST—
Mr. William Harvey, the pantomimist and ballet-master, known on several of the London and provincial boards, committed suicide by jumping overboard from the Helen M’Gregor steamer during her last voyage from Hamburg to Hull. He had been fulfilling an engagement at the Tivoli Gardens at Copenhagen. While there some difference arose between him and another person, who was taken before the chief of the police, and reprimanded. It is said that the man swore he would have his revenge upon Mr. Harvey, and the unfortunate man seemed to labour under the impression that the threat would be carried into execution. His engagement ceased at the close of last month, and he proceeded viâ Kiel to Hamburg, where he embarked on Sunday, on board the Helen M’Gregor steamer, for Hull, on his way to Dublin, where he had to appear this week at the Queen’s Theatre. In the course of the day he wrote several letters on deck, and at 7 o’clock in the evening he directed the steward to furnish him with a basin of water. This was the last that was seen of him. At daybreak his coat and hat were found on the forecastle, and at the time it was suspected that he had fallen overboard in a squall which took place on the previous evening, 72 miles west of Heligoland. The papers which he had been seen writing were subsequently found, and they clearly showed a determination on the part of Mr. Harvey to commit suicide. One of the papers was a kind of will, addressed to the captain of the steamer, directing the property about him to be delivered to his wife and two children. The deceased was 45 years of age, and was respected in the profession. His family reside in London,--Express.
