ONE OF THE MOST SINGULAR SUICIDES ON RECORD.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 588, 8 April 1870, Page 3

ONE OF THE MOST SINGULAR SUICIDES ON RECORD.

From Cannelton, Indiana, comes the story of a boy, named . Stanley Clark, who committed suicide because his mother would not give him money to attend the Owensboro Fair. He was sitting in company with his widowed mother and the children, in the family sitting-room, when the subject of the fair came up incidentally. Not the slightest apparent importance was given to the matter; it was talked of like any other of the thousand and one little topics which we all talk of daily around our firesides, when Stanley remarked: "Mother, I wish you would let me have a little money; I believe I'll go to that fair." To this his mother replied: " Stanley, I do wish you wouldn't ask me for money to go there I wish you would not go. You arc only eighteen years old, and I do not think it wise or safe for you to be keeping so much company. I want you to stay at home with us, and you know I want to make home as pleasant for you and all of us as I can. As your mother, I dread the idea of your getting into bad company or temptation." To this he rather smilingly answered: " You will let me hare it, mother, I know," or words to that effect, while he turned into his private room, where, before we can tell it, the family were shocked by the discharge of a pistol, and rushing in, they found him on the floor, lying on his back, stark, pulseless, and gory, the red current of his li c still streaming from the fatal orifice.