THE EFFECT OF REMORSE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1517, 25 November 1886, Page 3

THE EFFECT OF REMORSE.

It •-• Raid I!"*' a person "so disposed " can b killed by the shock of good news as euro as by •vil tidings. A Tory curious case occurruo a few w eke igo of a journeyman in the employment of a large firm in London being unexpectedly made manager, and thereupon committing suicide. The disturbing causes seem to Lave been the fear of responsibility »nd a sense of incompetency to fulfil the duties of a new and important office. A catastrophe of even a more painful kind took place in another >;reat house some years ago. On© of the Clerks, after many years' ssrvice, was offered a partnership, which be declined upon the ground of not possessing the minimum sum requisite for investment in the concern. " That shall be no obstacle,' said the principal, " for I will advance it to you myself ;" and so the matter wbb arranged, But on the very first day of the new partner taking possesion of his desk, he blew his brains out at it, leaving a few written words behind him to say why. He had been embezzling money from the firm for many years, though in such small sums that the whole amount was trifling, and there waß no chance of the defalcations being discovered. Remorse and the sense of benefit* undeserved had been, however, too much for his tender conscience.