SHORT SUITOR'S LETTER.
"LIFE A MISERY—GOING WEST." A tragic story of a well-to-do young man's devotion to a widow who rejected his advances was told at the inquest on Cyril Reardon, who was found shot through the head in the area outside a flat at Gloucester Terrace, Brompton. A letter found In one of Reardon's pockets stated : — "I wish everyone good-bye. I have been very happy with Mrs. —.It was heavenly, but now life is a misery. I cannot put up with it any more, so I have decided to go West. I am sorry to be such a fool, but courage will let mc do it. A woman was the cause of it." Mr. Keardon, an Irishman, aged 31, who ■was separated from his wife, formed an attachment for a widow, Mrs. Edith Hornsby, who fled to a friend's flat in Gloucester Terrace to escape from his attentions. She had made arrangements to sail for Egypt that evening and soon after she had refused to see him he was found dead, with a bullet wound through the head.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 25, 30 January 1926, Page 23
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179SHORT SUITOR'S LETTER. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 25, 30 January 1926, Page 23
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