SENSATIONAL SUICIDE.
EFFECT OF UNREQUITED LOVE. [Pnu Press Association.,! AUCKLAND, August 2. Unrequited love led a man named Charles Barry McCarthy to commit suicide this evening. McCarthy returned from England yesterday, and on arrival found that the young lady, Miss Evelyn Wright, of Ponsonby, to whom lie regarded himself as “engaged” had since tlicir parting formed another attachment.' Last night he. is said to have pleaded with her to renew the engagement, but in vain, and this afternoon ho called upon her for the same purpose, find Miss' Wright again refused him. Ho asked for a cup of tea,, and for some writing materials. These were provided, and he was loft alone. Presently groans weho heard, and rushing into the .room the family found McCarthy was dying. He expired in about. half an hour. It is believed he took prussic acid. A note on the table roacl: “1 have lived six years’lor this girl, and wish to say good-bye.” Tt is denied by both the girl’s parents and Dv tho girl herself that she was engaged to McCarthy" “They wore foiid of one another some years ago/’ said the mother, “but none of us ever regarded it seriously.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2570, 3 August 1909, Page 5
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198SENSATIONAL SUICIDE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2570, 3 August 1909, Page 5
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