BROADCAST WARNING OF SUICIDE

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12459, 29 May 1926, Page 11

BROADCAST WARNING OF SUICIDE

Telephoned to the police. Telegraphed to his “young Iqdy.” Wrote to tho coroner. These were the preliminaries to drowning himself of Charles Edward Beaumont, an 18-year-old Leeds youth, on whom an inquest was held. Receiving a telephone message to search the river, the police went so promptly to tho spot indicated that they found Beaumont still standing on the bridge. He said he was waiting for his sister, and the sergeant returned to tho station, thinking that it was a false alarm. Another message, was received, later, reporting the discovery of ft coat on the river bank, and his body was found m the water. , To his "voung lady ’ l\e wired : Dearest Lily,—Good-bye for ever. I have left Leeds, and gone where I was going on Sunday.—Charlie.” To tho coroner he wrote that ho was goine to commit suicide because his girl had “chucked” him. A verdict of suicide while temporarily insanco was recorded.

Over 40,000 teapots are now in use on the London and North Eastern Railway Svstem. .... Five hundred million passengers were carried by the Lnndnn-Midland-Scottish Railway last year without a single fatal accident.