Kills Himself With Sweetheart Present
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Philadelphia Expressman Ends Life in Camden Because She Does Not Love Him
His love unreciprocated, George Ward, 32 years old, of 2922 Poplar street, Philadelphia, shot himself to death yesterday in the presence of his unwilling sweetheart, Miss Anna Camlin, 29 years old, of 526 Cedar street, Camden. The suicide occured [sic] at the young woman’s home, and Coroner Bentley, after an investigation, gave a death certificate accordingly.
Members of Miss Camlin’s family said that Wahrd [sic] had been attentive to her for several years and that he was desirous of making her his wife. While holding him in high esteem, Miss Camlin did not love him sufficiently to marry him. In fact, she tried to dissuade him from continuing his one-sided attachment, but to no purpose. On Sunday he took a bouquet of flowers to her, but she left before he gained entrance to the house. He remained until nearly midnight.
Yesterday he did not go to his work as an expressman. Instead, he visited Camden with the apparent determination of settling the question. Entering the house, Ward went with Miss Camlin to the parlor. A few minutes later the household was aroused by a pistol shot, and when the room was reached Ward was lying on the floor with a bullet wound in the back of his ear, while Miss Camlin was in hysterics. Still breathing, the desperate swain was taken to the Cooper Hospital, but he died before that institution was reached.
From what could be gleaned from the young woman, Ward pulled the revolver from his pocket and sent the bullet into his brain before she had time to cry for assistance.