SOUTH AFRICAN TRAGEDY.
JIUKDERESS COMMITS SUICIDE IN
GRUESOME MANNER
■A terrible tragedy was enacted at King .■JVilliamstown, South' Africa,' towards the close' of February, a married woman jjamed Stewart making a murderous asgault on her husband and child. The affair had a terrible finale. The married woman was confined in gaol, but as she was only depressed and miserable, no special steps seem to have been taken to •watch her, though her sanity was suspected. A couple of days after her arrest she was still in a room in the gaol buildings, tut early in the morning she broke one of the wirfdows, and, taking out a sharp piece of the broken glass, about six inches long, forced it through her neck into the windpipe, and down into the cavity pf the chest. She 'then covered herself ■with the bed clothes, holding them well over her neck in order to disguise what She had done during the day. The woman's condition was discovered, but medical assistance was of no avail, and she filed at an early hour the following morning. Her husband still lives, though he is In a very precarious condition. The injured baby is reported to be showing more dangerous symptoms.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 88, 15 April 1899, Page 5 (Supplement)
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203SOUTH AFRICAN TRAGEDY. Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 88, 15 April 1899, Page 5 (Supplement)
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