Suicide for Love in Dunedin.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1819, 14 December 1875, Page 2

Suicide for Love in Dunedin.

(BY TJELUGBAPHJ

DUNEDIN.

(From our Own Correspondent.) This day. Under the heading " Love's Tragedy," th& papers here give the following particulars of the career of Alexander Scott, who committed suicide in Dunedin, on Sunday week : —" A considerable time since, he left Geelong, Victoria, where his father is a wellknown timber merchant and owner of considerable property, to fill a position in the Colonial Bank, Dunedin. He was held in esteem by all who knew him, because of his courteous habits and gentlemanly disposition, up to within a few months ago, when, becoming involved in a love affair in which he was unsuccessful, he rashly sought to drown the pangs of unrequited affection in drink. The result was dismissal, a climax that only tended still further to exasperate him. His father at first allowed him £20 monthly. This was reduced to £16, and for the last two months the remittance, which was paid through an uncle, ceased altogether. It is probable that his loss of employment and the discontinuance of his allowance tended to precipitate the crisis, but those who knew him intimately ascribed his fate directly and not very remotely to the fact that the young lady, with whom he has long been on intimate terms, and to whom it is believed he was affianced, recently married another,"