ROSARY CLUTCHED
BOY DROWNS HIMSELF “Just A Failure” London, May 10. With a rosary clutched, in his hands, Leonard Arthur Atkins, aged fourteen, of Ry Road, Hoddesdon. Hertfordshire, drowned himself in the river Lea. Scribbled on a pad in his pocket was a note: “To Mum, Dad, and Fred. Got the sack again. I am jutt a failure. From your loving son Len, God forgive me.” At the inquest at Epping, the coroner Mr. L. F. Beccle, recorded a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind. “1 am satisfied,” he said, “tltf.it his home is sa’ isfactory, but my impression is that he has been handled extremely unsympathetically, probably unknowingly.” Referring 'to the note left by Atkins, Mr. Beccle said: “He must have suffered extremely mental anguish.” Mr Atkins replied: “He would get tip early a.nywfay and do gardening. He,, was a wonderful boy in the home” He added: “None of us ever laid a hand on him. He had a wonderful home and a wonderful moth* er ” I . ... .
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 441, 24 May 1937, Page 5
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169ROSARY CLUTCHED Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 441, 24 May 1937, Page 5
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