TRAGEDY OF A BET.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21147, 3 October 1930, Page 16

TRAGEDY OF A BET.

YOUNG HUSBAND'S SUICIDE. A tragedy of sensitiveness was unfolded at an inquest at Liverpool lately, when a verdict of Suicide while of unsound mind was returned on David Eric Fletcher, aged 19, who lived at Tillotson street, and who hanged himself with a silk scarf from the bed rail at his home. it was stated that Fletcher had been married only four days to a girl of 18 jears. He told his wife that he had been asked to put five shillings on a horse for a man whom he knew. He gave the money to a boy to put on the horse; the horse won, and the man should have got about £5, but he found that the boy had failed to make the bet, and he would have to pay the man. A policeman paid Fletcher was unusually sensitive and quiet.