Crossed in Love

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 293, 14 May 1914, Page 5

Crossed in Love

REJECTED SUITOR COMMITS SUICIDE.

A SAI) CASE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, May 13. "It is better to have lovol and lost than never to have loved at nil."' Hugh Stewart, a young Scotchman, who shot himself dead this morning in the I'rineo of Wales Hotel, wrote the above quotation oil the back of a novel and added, •'These words are written by me in full control of my mind." , The man was found dead in his chair in a bedroom about 8 o'clock. lie was shot through the head, and oil the floor lay a revolver with one chamber empty, The circumstances showed that death had been premeditated. Stewart arrived in New Zealand from Scotland a year ago and hail been employed as a barman. It is stated that deceased was fond of a girl at another hotel, but his love was unrequited. He left another quotation: "I liave been weighed in the balance and found wanting."

Dunedin, Last Night. At the inquest on the body of Hugh Stewart, found dead in the Prince of Wales Hotel this morning, the evidence showed that deceased appeared to be in good spirits yesterday. He bought a revolver at a pawn shop, and informed a friend he wanted it "for a bit of sport." Constable Sorrell said lie had interviewed the young lady with whom the deceased was supposed to be in love, and she said she- had informed Stewart con*. time ago that she could never marry him, on account of the difference in their religious beliefs. Tile coroner returned i vrriict that deceased died from the effects of a gunshot wound, self-inflicted while in a state of temporary insanity.