JUMPED UNDER TRAIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 31, 6 February 1937, Page 11 (Supplement)

JUMPED UNDER TRAIN.

PUBLIC SCHOOLBOY'S ACT. LETTER TO emit FRIEND. Nicholas PiMin Young, 16-year-olcl ])til>lic schoolboy son of Dr. Hubert Turner Perm Young, of Du Cane Koad, \V., psycliologist and medical olliccr at Wormwood Scrubs gaol, jumped under a train because a house master had found ii letter he had written to a girl. The coroner, Mr. Herbert Williams, at the inquest on Young at Monmouth. said the boy took too grave a view of the discovery of his breach of discipline and wrongfully imagined it might affect his future career. j Young's body had been found, covered j with frost, huddled beside the railway line at dawn. Mr. Kdgnr W. Siddon.i, a house master at Monnioutli School, described how lie found a I<-Ueer. written by I Young and addressed to a girl, on a table on the day Young disappeared. Mr. SMMone read the letter, which was quite innocent, such as Young i might have sent to his sister. He had not threatened Young with any punishment and he had not said ho would report him to the headmaster. Mr. C. F. Scott, the headmaster, described Young as a healthy boy. He had been accepted for the Nautical College at Pongbourne. The boy's, father, Dr. Y'oung, told the coroner that his son, who was happy and care-free, had received slight concussion playing football. A week or two latetr lie had been very violent speaking of some trivial incident. Tho coroner said two letters found on Y'oung convinced him that the boy, acting on an insane impulse, took his own life. Dr. Young attached no blame to .Monmouth School for the tragedv.