Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-10-03 | Page 53 | Citizen Driven to Suicide by Taunts

CITIZEN DRIVEN TO SUICIDE BY TAUNTS Special Cable to The Tribune. T.ONDOX.i Oct. 2. One of the so-called so-called "white feather" brigade was so much worried by the a.ttackJB made upon him by the taunts of the vomen lhar he liaH Just committed fliilclrje a t. his home In Shepherd' fl Bush. He was a chauffeur named Richard rharleH Roberts Rob-erts and It wan paid ai ihe corbnef'fl Inquesl that he had tried to enlist, hut has Yvcri rejected on account of a weak heart. This of Itself had dei-refed him. hut when some women taunted hltn and calletl him a coward. life became unbearable unbear-able to him. The Shepherd's BuSD coronet' pave Home Of these women a lecture. He do-ierlbed do-ierlbed ihclr conduct as abominable', and added: Here -was a man who was fin von the death by a pack of silly women, who knew- nothing about the circumstance circum-stance which had prevented th tie-ceased tie-ceased from becoming a soldier.