BERTRAM ARMYTAGE'S SUICIDE.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 65, 18 March 1910, Page 5

BERTRAM ARMYTAGE'S SUICIDE.

Press Assn—By telegraph—Copyright,

MELBOURNE, March IT

At the inquest on Bertram Armytage, the member of the Shackleton expedition who recently committed suicide, the coroner perused a letter left by deceased addressed to the secretary of the Melbourne Club in which he took his life. The letter referred to the writer's disappointment at not receiving an appointment at the War Office, which he was anxious to secure. The rest of the letter refererd to the disposal of his effects, and' showed that he contemplated suicide. The coroner remarked that Armytage was in the prime of life and' had everything he could desire—youth, wealth, and health, but there was just one tiling he wanted that he could not get, and it drove him to selfmurder.

A verdict was returned of suicide, there being nothing to show the state of his mind at the time.