MAN’S POIGNANT SUICIDE

Southland Times, Issue 21090, 23 May 1930, Page 2

MAN’S POIGNANT SUICIDE

ON HIS WIFE’S GRAVE. “I WILL SOON BE WITH HER.” Sydney, May 1. Heartbroken since his wife’s death three months ago, a young man, aged 33 years, in Sydney whose last wish was that his name should be kept out of the newspapers, committed suicide across the grave of his wife in the Rockwobd Cemetery. Few suicides in recent years have been surrounded with such tragic circumstances The suicide was deliberately planned and executed. The man’s last act before his fatal pilgrimage to his wife’s grave was to attend Mass jn the church in which he was married only a few years ago. Written in the front of the Bible that was found in his pocket were these few poignant sentences - .: —“I am in St. Patrick’s church, only a few yards from the spot where darling Marie and I were joined together as man and wife in the sight of God and the Church. I cannot stand being apart from her. I cannot stand being away from her. I will go and be with her to-day.’’ What happened between the time he wrote that and the time his body was found 1s not elear, but further writing this time on the back of a photograph of his wife, indicates that "he took portion of the poison he had with him and then made the notation. On the photograph was written:—“lt is 1.30 p.m. now. I have taken some of it and it is beginning to give me pains—but what exquisite pains! I will soon be with my darling Marie.” In a farewell letter which he addressed to the “Coroner and the Press,” the unhappy man indicated that he desired his name to be left out of the newspapers. “Don’t worry my family,” he wrote. “They have worries enough now. There is no need for a postmortem. Poisoning, self-administered. Do not talk about’temporarily insane. I know what I am doing and I want to be with my darling wife. I have wanted to be near her since she was taken away from me. I will be with her soon.’’