JILTED FOR OVERSLEEPING.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1018, 2 November 1912, Page 4

JILTED FOR OVERSLEEPING.

lazy mam poisons

HIMSKLF

Walter Ernest Comber, aged thirty, of Pelham road, Wood Green, was stated at an inquest recently to have committed suicide after being jilted because he over-slept himself. Evidence was given that he overslept himself on several occasions. One day the girl to whom he was engaged called at his lodgings and found him in bed. She said that he ought to have been at work, and that she would not marry a lazy man. He replied that he was ill.

On August .list he went to lodge with Mrs Morgan at Pelham road. “He was very downcast aud miserable,” said Mrs Morgan, “and he told me he had beeu disappointed in love.” The other day lie closed the windows and door of his room, and pulled down the blinds- A little later he called Mrs Morgan, and informed her that he had taken poison because his girl- had given him up. The following letter was re-' ceived by bis parents : “Dear Father aud Mother.—l cannot sleep or forget, even at work. If Ido not do something with myself I shall go mad. I have no cause to act as I did, lor Alice was always so good, aud my life would have been happier if I had done what I ought. I hope from the bottom of my heart that she will be happy for the rest of her life. Kindly bury the wedding ring with me.” The Corouer stated that the girl was not present in Court, as doctors had certified tlvat she was suffering from acute depression aud melancholia.

The jury returned a verdict of “Suicide while of unsound mind.’,