"A LONG SLEEP."

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 249, 20 October 1928, Page 3 (Supplement)

"A LONG SLEEP."

POISONED WOMAN IN CAR.

j The daughter of a solicitor, who mi alleged to have taken chlorodyne outride her club'after a disagreement with her husband, a mining engineer, and now in West of Africa, was charged on remandat the Marylebone Police Court with attempting to commit suicide.

The accused, Mrs. Marjorie Daniels, was found in a car outride, the Three Arts Club, Marylebone Road, where rite had been staying, and confessed that rite had taken :eluorodyne because she had a "lot o£ trouble," and "life was not worth j living." She was taken to St. Mary's Hospital, Where her life was not found tobe in, danger, but she told Inspector Fenson, it was alleged, that she took the "stuff" and would do it again if her husband did not return to her. The accused said that she had no intention, to kill herself. She took the chlorodyne to give her a "long sleep." Her husband had confiscated her jewellery and she was holding some business papers of his until he returned it. She was worried because her husband desired-her, she thought, to sign a deed of separation and did, not give her any money. > A clerk to the husband's solicitor's said that there wee no question of a deed of separation, and he was instructed to pay the accused £3 10/ a week' directly she handed over the husband's papers. On the advice of the * Magistrate the accused handed over the papers. He then asked her not to make another foolish attempt. The, Accused: I will give you my promise.:;- . '

The Magistrate: I will accept your promise. You. are an educated woman and you know perfectly well that your life is not your own to attempt to take. I think you have been aufficientljr punished and have had a lesson, and I * shall now discharge you under the Probation. of Offenders Act. v ;