A Love Tragedy.

Hastings Standard, Issue 405, 21 August 1897, Page 4

A Love Tragedy.

Mervyn Satchell, a young Englishman of good family, shot himself dead in his room at a fashionable boardinghouse in New York recently.* The deceased was a man of excellent education of artistic tastes, and had ample means for all ordinary needs. He was engaged to a beautiful girl, and was apparently regarded with affection by the family. At about half-past 4 o'clock that afternoon he received a letter from his fiancee and ten minutes later shot himself. The letter did not contain any bad news, but Mr Satchell was very anxious to marry the young lady that month, and two weeks previously had written to his father in England asking for funds to assist him in making a home. His father replied that while he approved of the engagement, he thought the would -be bridegroom should wait a year or two, for he was only 24 and his fiancee was but 20. After the receipt of bis father's letter, Mr Satchell became depressed, although the young lady, it is said, expressed her willingness to wait for him. The name of his fiancee was not disclosed, but a photograph of her, showing a pretty young girl—perhaps 20 years of age—was on a table in his room.