A ROMANTIC SUICIDE.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 97, 22 October 1881, Page 4

A ROMANTIC SUICIDE.

* The village of Old Windsor, on tho confines of tho Bnyal demesne, was recently the Bcene of a very tragic occurrence A man named John Dixon, recently a groom in the service of bir Reginald and Lady Ctithcart, of Titnees Park, had for some time been courting a girl of about 18 years of age, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pnllin, who reside in a cottage near the Jolly Gardeners' Inn. Latterly, however, Dixon appears to have been abandoned by his sweetheart for arival, and the estrangement would eeem to Have considerably affected tho unfortunate man, who went to tho boose of the Pullins, and, finding it olosed, awaited in the little garden, the return of the inmates. Mrs. Pullin and her daughter, who had been doing some work in the village church, came back shortly afterwards, and directly Dixon saw thorn approach the gate, he knolt upon the path, behind some raspberry canes, and out his throat in a fearful manner. Horrified at the spectacle, tho girl screamed, " Mother^ he is cutting his throat 1 " and at the cry Dixon, razor in hand, and with tho blood streaming from his lacerated neck, Btaggered along the path in tho direction of tho women, who ran off at once for assistance. Dr. Lowndes having sewn up tho wound, the sufferer was removed to the Windsor Royal Infirmary, where he expired soon after his admission, having, it is said, in a fit of excitement, torn open the wound in his neck. Tho cottage occupied by tho Pullina ia the same house where, some years since, a man named Cook, after murdering eoveral of his children, committed suicide.