Suicide in Medway (1768)

Post date: Feb 19, 2012 11:9:30 PM

Extract from Kentish gazette, 28 December 1768

On Friday last a young man at Yalding, taking some disgust at his sweetheart's keeping company with another young fellow, threw himself into the river at Wateringbury, and was drowned.—Such are the ill effects of inconstancy in love!