"IF POVERTY'S HIS CRIME."

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 232, 1 October 1925, Page 7

"IF POVERTY'S HIS CRIME."

AN END TO MISERY. THE FIGHT AGAINST ILLNESS. TOUCHING ENGLISH CASE. (By Cable.—Press Association.— Copyright) (Received 1.30 p.Ei.i LONDON, September 30. "Death from pneumonia and double 'aortic disea&e.. intensified by emotion, stirred up by a decision to commit suicide immediately." was the coroner's verdict on George Carle, aged 51 years, who was found dead but not wounded in a rented room at Brixton, with a fully loaded and undischarged revolver i tightly grasped in one of his hands. ■ His relatives deposed that who i was a cultured man. was weighed down by misfortune, beginning in Canada, j where In consequence of lack of work he : and his family became a charge upon j the State, and were deported. | He could not get work in England, and the Poor Law guardians refused iany further relief. His only choice was | the workhouse. I Carle in a remarkable letter to the coroner, begged that no verdict. of /'Suicide while insane." be given, "because I was never saner than now."— ! (A. and N.Z. Cable.)