LOVE’S TRAGEDY.

Evening Star, Issue 3993, 11 December 1875, Page 1 (Supplement)

LOVE’S TRAGEDY.

Under the above heading the ‘ Bruce Herald’ gives the following particular’s of the career of the young man Alexander Bcott, who committed suicide in Dunedin on the afternoon of Sunday last:—A considerable time since he left Geelong, Victoria, where his father is a well-known timber merchant, and the owner of considerable property, to fill a position ia the Colonial Bank, Dunedin. This he held, esteemed by all who knew him because of his courteous habits and gentlemanly disposition, up to within a few months ago, when, becoming involved in a love affdr, in which he was unsuccessful, he rashly sought to drown the pangs of unrequited affection in drink. The result was his dismissal, a climax that only tended still further to exasparate him. His father at first allowed him a very handsome amount to meet his current expanses, L2B monthly it is said, but this was reduced to Ll6, and for the last two months the remittance, which was paid through an uncle, ceased altogether. Still it is averred he was not in want ofimoney, but was able to pay his way, and ho had the prospect of an appointment in the Ha v hor Department. It is just probable that his loss of employment, and the discontinuance of his allowance, tended to precipitate the fatal crisis. But those W’ho knew him intimately, ascribe his sad fate directly, as well as remotely, to the fact that a young lady, with whom he had long been on intimate terms, and to whom it is believed he was affianced, recently marr ed another. The knife w’ith which ho terminated his life was a parting present from an esteemed friend when leaving Victoria, another exemplification of the popular superstition that a sharp-bladed instrument for bodes ill-luck.