How a farm hand's fear recalled by the study of psychology led him to take his life was revealed at the Billericay (Essex) inquest recent on Albert James Purkiss, 27. who lived at Sun-street Cottages. Billeri cay. Purkiss was found dead. floating in a pond at Acors Farm, Great Burstead. where he worked correspondence showed that h been taking a course of psychology.
A question in a book that had been sent to him asked what was the earliest fear he remembered. Purk reply. written in the book, wa that when he was four he was sitting on Office was to secure generals in the Commands involving expeditionary posts, who would be fit in every way to take mp their commands in field if called on during the tenure of their home billets. He applied the age test and approved Sir John Dill for Aldershot, the retention of Sir Edmund Ironside in the Eastern Command and selected Maj-Gen. Wavell for the Southern, Looking abroad he made A. P. D. Telfer-Smollett a local major-general in Shanghai while retaining Bartholomew in chief command in China in the same rank He resisted the attempt to press for Sir George Weir's appointment to High Commissioner in Palestine in succession to Sir Arthur Wauchope and chose as Gen. Weir's relief in Egypt, Sir Robert Gordon-Finlayson. Maj.-Gen. Haining at the War Office received the military command in Palestine, a bucket while his father. brothers and sister were skating on a frozen pond. His father fell and he (Purkiss) had sat screaming.
The coroner, Dr. L. F. Beccle, said that this had probably been an obsession since that time, and had been coalled by the course he had taken Suicide while the balance of Purkiss's mind was disturbed was the verdict When Mrs.
Benjamin Franki young wife of the dance band orchestrator, went to look t her seven-month-old daughter, Julia, sleeping in a perambulator in the garden of her Wadhurst home, "The Partridges" she found the child whimpering, her face covered with blood, a two-foot-long polecat ferret clinging to her. Although the baby was pushed to Tunbridge Wells Hospital she, died, WEDNESDAY,
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