NOT WORTH LIVING.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16810, 7 August 1920, Page 5

NOT WORTH LIVING.

LETTER LEFT FOR PARENTS. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, August 6. In connection with the finding of the body of Charles Carter,-a returned soldier, aged 30, in Victoria Park, Cashmere Hills, this morning, with_ fatal shot wounds, the police earlier in the day had received from his parents the following letter, dated August 5, 1920: • . , ,“Dear mother and father: I tried to do this 15 years ago, but although life wasn’t worth living, I could not leave, you all. I cannot postpone it any longer. 1 hope you will forgive me, and I believe it is best from all points of view. I have been living (mentally) in hell so long, and iny nerves are so decayed, that 1 am taking this moans of uniting body and soul again. You will find my remains on Dyer’s Pass Road. It is better to end life there than linger on in Snnnysido. Please say good-bye to S. and F. They have been my greatest comfort for 10 years. Good-bye to all the family.— Charley. P.S.; Mother, please take charge of my leavings.” , .