UNREQUITED LOVE

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 577, 4 August 1909, Page 8

UNREQUITED LOVE

':'THE PONSQNBY -TRAGEDY. A DRAMATIC INCIDENT. < (By Tolouraph.—Profea Assoclfttlon.) Auckland, August 3. 0 • An ..inquest was- conducted this afternoon on tile body of Charles Barry M'Carthy, j ( who committed suicide in Mrs. Wright's boardinghouse, Ponsonby, the previous day, 0 by sivallowing. a poison. . s The circumstancos of the suioide, which were' given 'ycsteiday, wero that dcceascd c came from England, to ask Miss AVright c hand in marriage, ' and," after being rejected, took. prussib acul iu .her mother's .house. - A dramatic incident. which preceded this J rash act was narrated at ■ the inquest by L Miss Evelyn M.' Wright, who, whon asked by the Coroner ; if ,-;slie could .add anything to 1 the : evidence .- given , by" the „ oiher . witnesse's, said" 'there' ,was:; something she,'wished to say.iv She .stated that after ; any int'ervieiw. f with deceased; \ she - and "her mother letft ], the ;room. : Deceased'called;her back and t asked her to.come; close to, him. - Sho went up to him,'-and ho. caught her arm and presented. a revolver, loaded in five chambers,' - to her left temple;- -She- knocked tho weapon up,' "and -it.' : fell ? "on! the' . floor'.,. She;, picked it up'and'unloaded it, and,deceased snatched the cartridges from her, but did not regain tho weapon. She knew the. mechanism of the revolver, which deceased had purchased in England six or ■ sevon years ago. Deceased, when dispossessed of the weapon, fell on his knees before her and asked for forgiveness',for"attemjptirig 'to take' her i'.lifp. He asked her not- to anyone, and , that was why she .had ~kept the incident; .secret. Deceased .went out . tor a, minute or two, and camo back apparently calm. Sho met hiin /at the/door, and asked him to promise hot to threaten ;h'er mother . 'with the revolver. He said ho was quito happy now, and would ■go homer-(she took, this. to . mean England)'.,;' She took: ,him tea- and .' notepaper,: and said she would wait while lie wrote. Ho said;. '.'No.'- He could noti collect' his /thoughts, asked/ her to leave the-room.- , • '-;:.'; ; ■ : - •/'■ 'To tho ■ Coroner: '.'I was just in timo to snateh'/'.'tbe''. revolver /he' .had /cocked.-; Just a ,touch! of- the -firiger; would havo done ,it." To".! Sergeant Croan-:--jWhen he- presented the™revolver" he said' he/would ! kill witness arid her .mother. .. / . ~-;'. To tho Coroner:' Deceased .was about. ': years older., than- she -was, and she regarded' him/: iripro:.as /a'father,'than anything •else.f,.' A* note' found/ : on/.the''/table.'was,'-handed/'Jtb.' - the, police.' It 'contained the- words: "I gave six years /of; my 1 life, for Evelyn, . ever/since I first-.kriew her.' 'Good-bye all." ■ : After/ medical / evidence- the jury returned a ; verdi(it';,of., poisoning by prussic!aeid : self- ' administered, •vyhile '-'iri. a';'statby of/ mental'.uri; soundness... . ■. ■'