AN EXPLORER'S SUICIDE.

Mataura Ensign, 18 March 1910, Page 2

AN EXPLORER'S SUICIDE.

MIXUOUKNE, March 17. At ti»' impiest <m -Mr Ilcrtram Armytagc (If.i 1 member of tlic Shackleton Antarctic expedition who shot himself nt the club) tli*; coroner perused a totter left by deceased, addressed to the secretary of the Melbourno Club, in which lie referred to disappointment at not receiving an appointment to the War Oifice which lie was anxious to secure. The rest of the letter referred to the disposal of his effects. It showed that he contemplated suicide. The I'oronor remarked that Army was in the primo of life and had everything »■ could desire—youth, wealth and health—but just the one thing law wanted he could >'.<■ (, and that drove himself M. self-murder. A verdict of suicide, there being nothing to show the still., of his mind at the time, was returned.