WORRIED TO DEATH
LOST REGISTERED LETTER POSTMASTER’S SUICIDE. A pathetic story of how the loss of a registered letter so worried a postal official that he committed suicide was told at the Sydney Coroner’s Court last week, when an inquiry was held into the death of Charles Bismarck West, an acting-postmaster. West had been over 40 years in the postal service, and the evidence disclosed that the loss of the letter was the first irregularity that concerned him during his long service. Mrs West related how the loss of the leter so worried her husband that he could not sleep. A postal official gave evidence that it was a foreign letter addressed to a seaman, and that there was nothing to indicate its contents. He had tried to soothe West, and had told him to go home and have a rest. West’s body was found at his home : at Mosman with the throat cut. A ver- I diet of suicide was returned. _
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20024, 17 December 1927, Page 3
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