WORRIED TO DEATH.
LOST REGISTERED LETTER. POSTMASTER'S SUICIDE. A pathetic story of how the loss cf a registered tetter so worried a postal official that he committed suicide was told at the Sydney Coroner's Court last week, when an inquiry was held into the death oj Charles Bismarck West, an acting-postiliaster. West had been over 40 years in the postal service, and the evidence that the loss of the letter was the first irregularity that, concorned him during his long service. Mrs. West related hofr the loss of the letter so worried her husband that he could not sleep. A postal official gave evidence that it was a foreign letter addressed to a seaman, and that there was nothing to indicate its contents. He had tried to soothe West, and had told him to go home and have a rest.
West's body was found at his homo at Mosman witli the throat cut. A verdict of suicide was returned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19809, 2 December 1927, Page 12
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