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C Y O'Connor's suicide note, 1902


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The position has become impossible.

Anxious important work to do and three commissions of inquiry to attend to.

We may not have done as well as possible in the past but we will necessarily be too hampered to do well in the immediate future.

I feel that my brain is suffering, and I am in great fear of what all this worry may have upon me - I have lost control of my thoughts.

The Coolgardie scheme is all right and I could finish it if I got a chance and protection from misrepresentation but there is no hope for that now and it's better that it should be given to some entirely new man to do who will be untrammelled by prior responsibility.

10/3/02

Put the wingwalls to Helena Weir at once -

Acknowledgements

Copyright Reproduced courtesy of State Records Office Western Australia
Creator C Y O'Connor, author, 1902
Identifiers Crown Law Dept Inquest file, State Records Office Western Australia number 997 item 976, 1902
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