A PUKEKOHE SENSATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 152, 29 June 1926, Page 8

A PUKEKOHE SENSATION.

WOMAN CUTS HER THROAT. LITTLE GIRL'S DISCOVERY. OPEN VERDICT RETURNED. With a Bevere wound in her throat, Mrs. Mary Young, aged 43, wife of a farmer of Birch Road, Pukekohe, was admitted to the hospital yesterday after- ■ noon. She died at 7.30 this morning. An inquest was held before Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., this afternoon. The husband of the dead woman, Arthur D. Young, said he had been '"-: married 13 years, and there were •- three children. His wife had had a nerr vous breakdown about five weeks ago, ■ and had received medical attention. . About three weeks ago his wile was ' examined at the mental hospital. She seemed depressed at times. Her mother was taken suddenly ill on Saturday < night, and this upset her again. Yester- ; day morning, just after getting up, his • little girl called him back to the house, '• and said there was "something wrong ] with mother." He found his wife still tn bed. and her throat was cut. A table knife was ;• lying on the chair by her bed. A doc- (■ tor was called, who ordered her to be I taken to the hospital. She had never • threatened suicide, but she fully realised her mental condition. To Sergeant Caldwell: She had taking medicine prescribed by Dr. Begg. James Roulston. who had known the dead woman nearly all her life, said lie knew of her mental condition. At times she was much depressed. Recently she had been suffering from a nervous breakdown. He had seen her quite recently and had thought that the change away in Auckland had done her a lot of good. She seemed, to be getting better. He certainly did not .suspect that she would commit suicide. The coroner returned a verdict that deceased died from shock following the loss of blood through a self-inflicted wound while suffering from a nervous breakdown. Her mental condition was the cause of her unexpected act.