SENTIMENTAL SUICIDE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1039, 17 March 1882, Page 3

SENTIMENTAL SUICIDE.

A young man named William Rnlger who was taken to the Melbourne Hospital in a critical condition from a gun-shot wound in his stomach, and an inquest was held by Dr Yonl, City coroner, when the following evidence was taken John Bolger, draper, stated that the deceased was his brother, 2o years of age, and umnarriel. They resided in Cardigan street, Charlton, and had a gun in the house. It was usually kept loaded. The deceased, when found wounded, was taken to the hospital. Before he shot himself he had had so in ll difference With a young woman. The following letter, which was found after his death, was in Ilia handwriting : “ Sunday, February 5, 1882. “Dear Sarah, —I have been so very unhappy since 1 saw you on Friday that I cannot bear it any longer- Do come an I see me, and torsive me for the rash act. as I d oit all for the best. My brother will fetch you if you will come to make my moments happy. 1 could not live without you. Some day, after lam turned to dust and forgot by all. yon will think of the love I had for you, and bear you still. But come, darling,and donot think me cowardly for doing this, and I have thought it over, and have come to the conclusion that it is all for the best for both of us, for it will not rob yon of my love, for wherever I may go 1 will still love you. They have thought well to part us and cause much misery, but I will end mine. You aie very yoiin r ; you may find others whom you will love' and who will love you equally as well as 1, if not better, as your mother told me the other night. I may he dead when you receive this, and may God pardon me for the disgiace I bring Upon my family and friends by doing this. Come to mo while one spark of life remains, to make me happy before I part to eternity. So goodbye , a levin" goodbye for over, darling, from one who loves you, and who sacrificed his love for you by death. “William Boi.uer. “ I aak the forgiveness of your family for the rash words I Used to you and them. “W. B. “ Jack, please deliver this in haste to the address on the other side, and yon will oblige your Brother Bill. “To MissSarahHarrison, OS Gore street, Pitzroy. or 209 Hoddle street, near Gloucester Hotel.” Witness knew that the deceased was in love with a Miss Sarah Harrison, of Gore and Hoodie streets, but he had not mentioned the subject to witness. Elizabeth Barr, widow, residing next to the bouse in wb’cli the shooting occurred, stated that, on the afternoon of the Ota inst. she heard deceased groaning, and on going in to see what was the matter, found him lying on the bed with a large gunshot wound in the belly. She pnt a wet clolh to the wound, and he was taken the hospital. His mother was the only person in the house at the thne. and she was quite stupefied, and had been ill ever since Patrick Bolger, another brother of the deceased, deposed that he saw the latter in the hospital after he was shot, when ho told witness it was an accident, and that he was taking something nut of one barrel of the gun when the other went off. Witness had examined the 'gun, and foSnd that one of the barrels had been recently discharged, and that some impediment was in the other.

The jury found that the wound from Which the deceased died was Self-inflicted, hat that there was no evidence to show the state of the mind he was in at the time.