A SAD SUICIDE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3710, 14 January 1891, Page 3

A SAD SUICIDE.

Fatal Love. An inquest was held at the Croydon Hotel on Monday, touching the death of Ernest Robert Cutler, an ironmonger's assistant, age 20, which took place at Cremorne on Sunday from the effects of a buJlet wound in the breast. The evidence given showed that the deceased had not he en well for about acouple of months !yid on Sunday morning he • told his brother he was going down to the camp to see his cousin, a young man named Blacklock. He went to the camp and sat outside one of the tents, Jris cousin being away. Blacklock returned about half past 12, saw the deceased, and asked him how he wv getting on. He looked very miserable, and had eyidently been / crying. In reply Jo his cousin's inquiry he stated that things were very bad, and showed Blacklock a letter which he had in his pocket. After some further conversation Cutler got up and went a little way from the tent, and with his back turned to his cousin palled a revolver • from his pocket and himself in- the breast. The latter ran toward him, and prevented foim from failing. After he had shot himself he told Blacklack to give the letter, which was from a lady, and Lis pocket book to his mother, and to tell the young lady he loyed her still. Dr Newmarch was sent for but there was no hope, and the injured man expired at about a quarter past 3. The jury found that deceased died from a bullet wound iu the left breast, which had been selfinflicted. The Coroner would not allow the letter mentioned in evidence to be read, although the brother of the deceased desired that it should be. It was from the young lady with whom Cutler had been keeping company for about eighteen months, the lady had agreed to marry him, but after mature consideration had come to the conclusion that they were both too young to marry, and wrote to him to that effect.