A SATURN GIRL'S SUICIDE.
An extraordinary letter whs read recently at Everdon, England, when the death of a young- woman named Walker, twenty-four years old, was investigated by a coroner's jury. De~ eeasedwas a governess, and she had been found drowned. The letter, which was addressed by the deceased to a school friend, contained the fol-
lowing: —
'Last night as I lay in bed, miserable and hopeless, I took to studying- my hands again, and I found out too plainly to misunderstand. You know I told you I was born mad, with my fate line upside down. I found this line repeated on the other hand. I saw all that is happening to me in it. I remembered that I had changed places, and that Saturn, and not Luna, is the predominating planet now. I am just coming to a fatality. Being a Saturn girl, it is Saturn fatality. Rather than submit to it I mean to be drowned.'
The jury returned a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane..
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 29, 4 February 1899, Page 2 (Supplement)
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