Charles Leslie Jermyn

Charles Leslie Jermyn worked in the family business as a grocer, <1910.

History
Charles Leslie Jermyn was born at Sebastopol in 1890, the son of Ellis Jermyn and his second wife, Elizabeth Treloar. They operated the Prince of Wales Store on the corner of Rubicon and Albert Streets.

Charles committed suicide on November 1910: "SUICIDE AT REDAN. WELL-KNOWN GROCER’S SON THE VICTIM. CUTS HIS THROAT WITH A RAZOR. HAD BEEN VERY DEPRESSED. The Redan police were last night in formed that a young man named Charles Leslie Jermyn, son of Mr E. Jermyn, the well-known grocer, who carries on business at the corner of Albert and Rubicon streets, Redan, had died from injuries self-inflicted. For some time past young Jermyn, who had assisted his father in his business, had not been in the best of health, and for about two months his friends have noticed him to have been very depressed. However, he had never hinted at taking his life, and when he retired to bed on Thursday night there was nothing to indicate that he needed watching. At 7 o’clock yesterday morning a sister in passing her brother Charlie's bedroom heard him breathing in a peculiar manner, and on going to investigate the cause she found him lying in bed with a gaping wound in his throat. Another brother, Robert, who was asleep in another room, was awakened by his sister’s screams, and he ran out to ascertain the cause. He found his brother with his throat badly gashed and a razor by his side. He was unconscious, and had lost a considerable quantity of blood, the bedclothes being saturated. While Mr. Robert Jermyn was bandaging up the wound in his brother’s throat as best he could a telephone message was sent to Dr M'Gowan, who responded immediately. The doctor found a wound on the young man’s neck about six inches in length, and almost severing the jugular vein. He attended to the injury, but regarded the case as hopeless owing to the quantity of blood lost by the victim, who must have made the attempt on his life some time before the discovery by his sister. He lingered on in an unconscious condition until 7 o’clock last evening, when he died. When the police were informed of the occurrence Senior-constable Evans, the officer in charge of the Redan police station, took the body to the Morgue, and reported the matter to the district coroner, Mr Goldsmith, P.M. An inquest is to be held."