LURE OF DREAMS.
WORK THAT FAILED. EX-OFFICER’S SUICIDE. London, August 15. Depressed through two years of unemployment, Captain Ralph Lester, 37, formerly a rubber planter in Ceylon, and a reservist officer in the Indian Army, shot himself dead in St. James’ Park. His brother in evidence at the inquest said deceased suffered acute depression by nightly dreaming that he had received an appointment only to wake up and find it a dream. Deceased, who had only 3s Gd in his pocket, left a letter addressed to the coroner, asking him to expedite the inquest. “My real desire,” he wrote, “as I am no use in the world, is to be allowed to leave it with as little fuss as possible.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 September 1922, Page 5
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120LURE OF DREAMS. Taranaki Daily News, 6 September 1922, Page 5
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