TRAGEDY OF OVER-STUDY
A dramatic story was told to the St. Pancras Coroner by Mrs. Wolstenholme, wife of a cloth designer, of Mansfieldroad, Kentish Town. London. She said that after her husband had three times threatened to take her life she applied for a separation order, and after her return from _ the Court was about to ttit down to dinner with her children when her husband held a revolver at her head and exclaimed. "I will shoot you, thb children, ( and myself ! ' ' Her Bix years old boy called out, "Papa, don't shoot us, don't shoot us!" whereupon her husband turned the weapon on himself and committed suicide. A constable said he was called to the house by the little boy, who, in an imploring voice, exclaimed, "Please do come, my papa has shot himself." It was shown that Wolstenholme' b brain had given way in consequence of over-study.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 77, 30 March 1912, Page 12
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148TRAGEDY OF OVER-STUDY Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 77, 30 March 1912, Page 12
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