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DRIVEN TO SUICIDE. INQUEST STORY OF COLONEL'S TROUBLES.

An inquest on the body of Lieutenant- Colonel John Dillon Byrne, Royal Artil lery, of Ingledel, Pine Mount Road, Camberley, was held at the Westminster Coroner's Court. Colonel Byrne, whờ was still on the active list, was found shot at the United Services Club, Pall Mall He had served in India and on North-West Frontier, and during the the Great War fought in the battles of Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge, Festubert. Loos, the Somme, and Passchendaele.

Francis Edward Byrne, a Commander in the Royal Navy, identified the body as that of his brother, a brevet lieutenant- colonel, who had the Distinguished Ser- vivo Order He was a married man, hut had no children. The witness had let- ter from him after his death. The witness handed the letter to the Coroner, who read it, but did not disclose its contents.

The Coroner: Can you tell me any- thing about his financial position He was funncially embarrassed.

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BORROWED FROM MJXEVLENDERS. Why was that 7-I think the cause was borrowing from moneylenders.

Do you know how much he borrowed i i -No, sir, I have not been able to find. aut. He was overdrawn at the bank. I understand, but I do not think for very much.

Was be extravagant --Be lived well. As be had been accustomed to ?—Yes. Proceeding, the witness said that his brother was quartered at Blackdown. His wife had told the witness that lately he had been sleeping very badly and that he groaned in his sleep. When her hus. band left her, she presumed that he was going to his battery, and expected him Back to lunch. He did not return, bow- ever, and after his death she received a letter from him by post. His brother was living very happily with his wife.

LAST GOOD MORNING." Frederick Crotty, a hairdresser at the club, said that Colonel Byrue, passed him in the club and said "Good morning

WEATHER REPORT.

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is central N. of Tokio, and The depressions N.E. of Ishigaki and, ovar Indo-China has deepered.

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Bangkong rainfall for the 24 hours anding at 18 hours, April Też 9,097 inch. · Total rinos January lat, 1607 inches, against MA #YOTAgu of 627 inches

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A few minutes later the "witness beard a shot and, summoning assistance, endea. Thur. voured to enter the room. The door was locked. A pair of steps was obtained, and Colonel Byrne was seen lying on the floor.

Fri.

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Police-Sergeant William Charter said be saw Colonel Byrne lying on the Boor Bus with an automatic Colt revolver clasped tightly in his right hand. Two letters | Mor were found on the dressing-room table, one addressed to the secretary of the club, Tue. and the other to the coroner.

The Coroner said Colonel Byrne had Wed. evidently shot himself with a pistol. He was financially embarrassed, and bad got. into the bands of moneylendera. He was

uffering from insomnia and was no doubt │„ intensely worried. His letter to him (the Coroner) was us' follows:-

I am doing what I am because my brain and mind can stand no more. I have been bounded to death by Jew Inwyers and moneylenders.Yours truly, J. D. BYRNE, Lieutenant-Colonel." The dead man bad also sent a letter to. his brother in which he said, "I am going out as I have reached the limit."

CORONER ON "BLOODSUCKERS."

Mr. Oddie, continuing, said, "I expect, like other members of the professiona, he

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ABUSE OF DOLE SYSTEM.

ML. LANSSTRY CREATES A BURPRISE.

lo order to remedy the scandal of the dole system, drastic changes in the admi- nistration of unemployment benefit are about to be enforced in Great Britain limiting the benefit to those who have made eight insurance payments in the This will suddenly throw large numbers

two years or thirty at

any time. of the insured on the Poor Law. Labour speakers in

in Parliament put the Sgures at or 30,000. 25,000

the Labour Government was for the Act, their-successors

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was suffering from the modern high taxa. attacked by Labour speakers) tion and high prices more than the rest hang it into operation.

Mr however, created surprise in the

House of Commons by denouncing the be better spent on farming in the Colonies doles and urging that the money could

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Thanks, said the passenger. "Please save me farther trouble, and throw it over the rail."

of the community. Having been brought up to live on perhaps a fairly generous scale be now finds himself unable to coo- tinue doing so without running into debt. One can easily see what happened. His breakfast table; like all our breakfast tables, was littered with circulars from

During

a very rough crossing from the moneylenders offering such generous Hook of Holland a steward came up to terms that in the end he thought that might be a possible way out of his dificul- sheltered position near the companion- who was sitting alone in a Passenger ties, and be obtained a loan, probably way. "I thought I would bring you a without security, and found that he had little of something to eat up here on to go on paying enormous sums in so

deck, air, be anid, to save you trouble." called interest. In the end the position, appeared to be quite hopeless, and he was driven to take his life. This case, like so many others, emphasizes the argent need for legislation dealing with moneylenders and the dissemination of moneylenders' circulars through the post. My view is that it is time that such broad- casting of moneylenders' circulars as obtains to day should be made illegal. Many poor men and women have been driven to sugide as the direct result of these circulars which have tempted them to borrow money from professional bloodsuckers. This man's life has been abruptly_brought to an end through that cause. This is a particularly distressing case, and one must sympathize with his relatives."

Mr. Oddie recorded a verdict of "Sui- cide while of unsound mind.",

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