KILLED BY JOY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1410, 18 November 1886, Page 3

KILLED BY JOY.

It is said that a person “ so disposed ’’ can be killsd by the ehook of good news »s surely »s by evil tidings A very curious case occurred a few weeks ago of a jour-m-yman iu the employment of a largo firm la London being unexpectedly myd« manager, and thereupon cnmmltti>g *uio'-de T he disturbing causes seem t t.ave lean the fear i f resp tisibility, an- 1 a score of Incompetenty to <u til the d .ties of a new and iaipoitant i flioe. A catastrophe of even a more painful kind took olace In another great bouse in the same cty Bern; years ego. One of the Clerks, ■>ft.»r many years faithful service, was offered a partnership, which he declined upon the ground of not possessing the minimum sa.m requisite for investment in the concern. “That shall be no obatac e,” i-aid the principal, “ for I will advance it to yon myself and so the matter wss arranged. But on the very first day of the new partner taking possession of his desk, he blew his brains out at it, leaving a few written worJs behind him to say why He had been emb zzling money from the firm for many years, though in such small sums that tbe whole amount was trifling, and there was no chance of the defalcations being disooveied. Remorse and the sense of benefits uodesery d had oeen, however, too much f >r bis tender conscience.