ANOTHER GIRL POISONED.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 187, 9 August 1893, Page 8

ANOTHER GIRL POISONED.

WAX MATCHES AGAIN.

We have to record yeb another case of Poisoning by swallowing wax matches. Ib has been reported to the police thab Edith May George, seventeen years of age, employed as a nursegirl by- Mr Walter Lewis, butcher, corner of Victoria and Chapel-streets, dissolved 31 match heads in a teaspoonful of milk, and drank the same ab twelve o'clock to-day. Mr Lewis was first acquainted with bhe facb about six or seven minutes after the act by a young woman who rushed into his shop and told him thab Miss George waa lying in the kitchen in great pain. Upon being questioned the unhappy young girl confessed thab ahe had attempted to poison herself, and gave as her reason for the same thab she was nob good enough to live. There is every reason to believe, Mr Lewis states, thab the girl.was suffering from religious mania. She was in the habit ot; attending the Helping Hand Mission and the Salvation Army services,- and of late she has expressed greab concern aboub her ebernal salvabion. Lasb nighb upon- returning home to her mother's residence in Hobson-streeb (her mobber abates) she refused to go to bed, bub sat reading her Bible and saying prayers. Although repeatedly urged to desist, sho still continued—stopping up until labe in tho night. At. the timo thab a girl com-, mitted suicide in Onehunga by eating matches, Miss George said thab bhab was whab she would do also if people were bo balk aboub her.

Dr. Bayntun, who was soon in attendance, ordered her removal to the Hospital, where she now lies in a precarious condition,

Mr Lewis states thab the matches were not procured from his place, but that they we're purchased by the girl from Miss Lloyd's.