UNREQUITED AFFECTIONS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 595, 25 August 1909, Page 7

UNREQUITED AFFECTIONS.

YOUNG, MAN THREATENS, SUICIDE,

DISAPPEARS PROM HOME.

'The polico received word' yesterday morning _that a ypuiig man, named, M.ii 1 . : Jokn Oalderwood.had disappeared from hjs' homo m : Newtown m. circumstances which pointed to a possibility of suicide. Cald'erwbfld, who was 2L years of age, flas,employed by-Mr.' tarroll, contractor,-of Colombo'Street',' Newtown, and occupied a room over.a stable, on his premises '; .Yesterday ,moming Mr. Carroll uotioed that his employee' wi'as-miss-ing, and in this room he found a note, apparently . in Calderwood's . writing, to the, enecHhat it was no use looking f or him, as he would be "put of the,reach of tnere were,blood stains'.pa the floor v-. Calderwppd's father, who lives in Mudge's iprrace, Newtown, found tWo notes'; yos'terdaymprnuig on his kitchen .tabic, where his spa had been, seen writing. One note was addressed to Mr. ■ Calderwqod, senior, arid the Other tp a girl.j Ijving in'•Stake"Stroet,"fpt;whom, young Uidenypod had formed "an attoction. /The ' notes, suggested thai"" the yp,Ung man' intended' |p destroy himself, because. the CT g } r\ wpulcl offer' nq encouragement •??, tis action. Mr... identified the hand-writing as his son's" • .The statement'of the girl j B that she'was ? Q i i k s?J>«g company" witji /Calde'rweod, b H* wew liim only to spqakto/aiVd as" a visjtor tp.ber parents,' house. She'last "saw iron'.at their tipusp, between nine and ten •o dock on Sunday night. He had : been asking her to keep cpriipany" ,s's him, ami SsSJS IS.'* r m'im Wp'.' W she; had retused .'nVhen bp wept a W y on Sunday night I think he wasra bit upsf.t, ai,dli fi -hM mi f.WI, limes that M >vquld do " away witt himself, that-he was in everyone's wav Mte-M said that BO.pften that i'lHpught little about it." The gir hap 1 no idea ffherp Cfjderwood would be likely tfl go; , iho police are making ' Investigations. Ulderwoodis described a 8 beipg" about ""■.pr St. lOm. in hegbt, of dark comli 1 R res ' and °- f gaitVhp. walking Ho wajj gearing highest suit when he was last seen.