"MOTHER'S BOY."

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 179, 30 July 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)

"MOTHER'S BOY."

BECOMES MOTHER'S SORROW

"I lost my husband when my son was a baby, so all my life was wrapped up around him. Right from the start.he: was a mother's boy, and ho refused to marry because he had me to support Now that he's gone I feel so lonely." 1 hie was the heartbroken cry of a mother who lost her onlv son. He was Charles Thomas, aged 45, of Greenfield Gardens, Golders Green, who was found dead among some tohage in Golders Hill Park, with a bullet wound in his heart. A Service revolver lay by his side.

Mrs. Thomas, a grey-haired old lady, was in tsars when she told how her son had been an export agent until he lost his job last year. Then he started dealing in property, but his business did not bring him an adequate return. Just before he died ha wrote two letters which were found in his possession, one addressed to hie mother and the other to the coroner. ' : He said in one letter that he thought he was going mad." added Mrs. Thomas, "that he could not stand the strain much longer, and that he did not wish to be a burden on me. He suffered from shellshock and fits of nervous depression, and he could not stand worry. He was always affectionate to me, and on the day of the tragedy he was more so than usual. Two days before he was strange in his manner. He said then that if things did not get better he would get out; but I asked ii.m not to leave me, and he said he would never do that. Now he has gone, and I am so lonely."