END OF A LOVE AFFAIR.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 248, 18 October 1924, Page 66 (Supplement)

END OF A LOVE AFFAIR.

YOUNG WOMAN'S SUICIDE. The tragic sequel to a love affair was described at an inquest at Paddlngton on Miss Kathleen Rogers, aged 20, of independent means, who died Iα St. Mary's Hospital after throwing herself from a window of her third-floor flat at Bickenhall Mansions, Marylebonc Road, on Thursday. Tho dead woman's sister, Mrs. Helen judd, said that Miss llogers had been much upset recently owing to the unhappy termination of a love affair. She had been engaged to bo married, but about three weeks ago the man tola her that they would havo to wait, and the engagement was virtually broken off. Since tben Miss Rogers had been greatly depressed, and once or twice ehe baa said that sho did not think sho could go on living- The future, she declared, appeared hopeless, and the world seemed oil black. She also used to declare that nobody wanted her except her own people. She consulted a doctor, and confided to him the lull story of her trouble. Sho told him that she ■was afraid that her brain might have been turned, and evinced a fear that her mental condition might necessitate her entering gome Institution for treatment. That night witness slept In the same bed with her, but when she awoke next morning Miss Rogers was missing. On looking out of the window she saw her sister lying in the basement 45 feet beneath. Her death occurred in hospital 6hortiy afterward a. Recording a yerdtct of suicido while of unsound mind, the coroner remarked that had the deceased been a woman of normal mental balance she would not have taken her disappointment bo much to heart. She would probably nave found comfort In the reflection that "there ere as good fish In the sea as ever camo out of it."