PECULIAR CIRCUMSTANCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 1 October 1925, Page 9

PECULIAR CIRCUMSTANCES.

DIED FROM DISEASE. WHEN ABOUT TO COMMIT SUICIDE. ar CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT Received Oct. 1, 1.50 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 30. Death from pneumonia and douhle aortic disease, intensified by emotion stired up by a decision to commit suicide immediately, was the coroner’s verdict on the death of George Carle, aged 51, who was found dead without a wound on his lx>dy in a rented room at Brixton. He had a fully .loaded and undischarged revolver tightly grasped in one hand. Relatives deposed that Carle, who was a cultured man, was weighed down by an unfortunate beginning in Canada, where, in consequence of unfamiliarity with land work, he and his family became a charge upon the State and were deported. He could not get work in England, and the poor .law guardians refused further relief. His only choice was the workhouse.

Carle, in a remarkable letter to the coroner, begged him not to return a verdict of suicide from insanity, “because I have never been saner than now.” —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.