WOMAN CUTS HER THROAT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 179, 29 July 1913, Page 5

WOMAN CUTS HER THROAT.

THE WOUND NOT FATAt. A PONSONBY INCIDENT. At an early hour this morning a married woman named Florence Kate Aggers, who lived at No. 12, Pratt Street, Ponsonby, was found in the kitchen of her residence with her throat cut. Her husband. James Aggers, was aroused about 5.30 a.m. by unusual sounds in the kitchen, and he went there, to find Ms wif« lying on fche floor bleeding profusely from a deep wound in her throat, beside her being a razor. He called his daughter, and while she was attending to her mother, doing her best to staunch the bleeding, Mr. Aggers went out and summoned a constable and Dr. Keith. The latter found that, though the gash acrO33 the throat was a. severe otic, it was not sufficiently deep to have linjured the thorax, and after dressing the wound he had the patient taken to the Hospital.

Mrs. Aggers is a quiet woman, much respected in the neighbourhood. She is of middle age. and has of lat? been subject to fits of sleeplessness and depression, which was attribute:! to the fact that she was at the critical period in women known as the. climacteric, or change in life. In consequer.ee of the ineomnia she was, at her own suggestion, sleeping in a separate room.