GIRL'S TRAGIC DIARY.

Auckland Star, Issue XXXVI, 21 October 1905, Page 13

GIRL'S TRAGIC DIARY.

A diary kept by a young woman wh* committed 6uicide was produced at* a coroner's inquest at Ramsgate, and pathetic entries were "read to show the state of het mind. The young woman, Hannah Cohen. a domestic, servant, threw herejelf from the cliff" promenade on to the railway, a distance of sixty feet. Cohen's mother said her daughter, who had been unhappy ia her situations, bad been tha cause of great trouble to her. The following extracts from the diary were, made pubUc—August 13—I feel so queer, and I am losing my memory. I trust the Almighty will make mc keep. =here as long as they are going to stay. I do so want to get a good character. Aug. 14—1 believe I am going mad. I feel as though I must commit suicide, I am contemplating the prospect of getting run over when I go out to-morrow- I hope I have got pluck enough. I wish I was dead: then, perhaps, mamma would love mc. I don't deserve her love I know. Oh, my God, it is breaking my heart. I have not one peri son in this world to whom I can turn when in trouble — no one at all. I am an outCast, and, as such, not taken a bit of notice of. Oh, God, lot mc get run over tomorrow. It is wicked to pray for such a thing, but I cannot help it. August 27 Hope I shall hear from "P." Don't know, what to do if otherwise. Letters written by Mrs Cohen were also read, and the coroner observed that they showed that the woman had tried to help her daughter. The jury, in returning a verdict of suicide during temporary insanity, expressed sympathy with the mother.