LURE OF DREAMS.
WORK THAT FAILED.
EX-OFFICER'S SUICIDE.
LONDON. Aug. 15.
Depressed through two years of unemployment, Captain Ralph Lester, 37, formerly a rubber planter in Ceylon, and a reservist officer in the Indian Army, shot himself dead in St. James* Park.
His brother in evidence a 6 the inquest said deceased suffered acute depression, by nightly dreaming that he had received an appointment only to wake up and find it a dream. Deceased, who had only 3s 6d in his pocket, left a letter addressed to the coroner, asking him to expedite the inquest. "My real desire," he wrote, "as I am no use in the world, is to be allowed to leave it with as little fuss as possible."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18175, 22 August 1922, Page 7
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