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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 814, 9 December 1882, Page 3

s: An ; Unfoutonatb.—The choice of a -profession' is a matter which demands - rather 'Serious consideration. Bat many ‘do not‘pause for much reflection, 'find, wheri too late, that they have mistaken their vbcation. This probably was the case with an actor who died of starvation ,in JLondon recently. It seems that, hOwaS 1 f een in' the street—the centre -of » ferovid from- whom he was begging— I .thaf all hishad was“ twopence halfpenny,” for a night’s lodging. ‘fOtt.attemptihg to move on he was so weak the grodnd thoroughly ex-, I certain that he was starving and in a dying condition, the contßt»hio4 with much kindness put him in a «w&atadLwnk him ofi 1 to the Whitechapel Infirmary,.• where he died- The nurse stateojtna| Jio 'wpjs in .a very 11 djrty and destituw Morfdftiod,” fnd was “ all skirt and bones.” " 'no-shirt or hat ori Iftth^acfoitted 1 , and at' the post mortem it : came out that he had sufhfbrtrtfc gveatlyfrom want of food. His only limeahs ofißyelihOod was by selling matches i-imdeayelopis, which had brought him in 'i-The=stdry is a painful one, «u'foiethaagb deaths from starvation are of o4te<|Defft occurrence,it is not often that f-lifo'phssi'blff'tb see a man drop down in qthnitoiddje 'of a crowd and almost die id ,’ittts • !