TRAGIC END.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 150, 26 June 1937, Page 28 (Supplement)

TRAGIC END.

YOUNG GIRL'S LIFE.

KILLED HERSELF FOR LOVE.

I Infatuated with a young man. a 15-year-old dressmaker* apprentice, told I by lier parents that she was '"too younj; Ito have a boy friend." killed herself. I This was the tragic story revealed when ! the Birmingham coroner. Dr. W. H. (Davison, inquired into the death of the girl. Violet Evelyn Searrot, of Castle Road West. Oldbury. Worcs. who was found in a local recreation ground suffering from disinfectant poison. She died later in Selly Onk Hospital. i A tragic figure, the girl's mother told | the coroner how her daughter, a tall. ! graceful girl, enine home crying and very upset the day before her death. "Sudden Impulse." "I asked her what was the matter" the mother declared, "and she told_ me Tier girl friend. Betty, had a 'boy friend and would not l>c going out with her much more —hut she was singing about half an hour later. The next day, when she was supposed to be at work, we heard >he wa-= in hospital. I went to sec her. and she admitted drinking disinfectant. She said it was because oi j Norman, her boy friend."' The Coroner: She was only 15 and I three months —a bit young for a boy | friend ? I Mrs. Searrot: Yes, that's what her lather told her. It was about three weeks or a month ago, and she seemed ! very upset. The Coroner: I suppose there was i some fu-s about it ': —Ye*, and I told her -he was young and talking childishly. ; She was. a very bright and happy g irl ; It appears from what you say that it I must have been a sudden impulse on | her part?— Yes. 1 think it wa-. i ""Of course, this i- a perfectly childish i bu.-ines- in a girl of 1".." commented Dr.j Davison, returning a verdict of "suicide ! while of unsound mind." "Always Happy." i At their home later the girl's heart- ! broken t'other told of the incidents leading up to the tragedy. "Violet was | always happy at home, and vu- bad BO iililliculty with her until .i month ;i£ u - * i heard that .-lie wa- -cnjig a young roan called Norman .lone-. My girl, after all, was very young, und .lon,— came t0 : Birmingham onlv a few week- ago. I "ire i- JO. and as wc did ivt know anything about him. and the differeiiee in their ages wa- fairlv wide. I advirfu ; Violet it uould be beiid if -he did ""t -ee him. 1 told her -he v.i - :•"> yonnS 'to go with a bov. 1 i,.;.| "n-r -die could . bring him horn.- \.. Tea -~ t'n.tt «e could j meet him. but -he nc\ cr •'.'. \. "She did not take inv ad. ice kindly- , Still. I wa- linn, mid "thoiigin I j' ad : made her gi\e him up. <>n tiic night before -he died she came in late and very di>tiv-.-ed. Hie >ceined all right next morning, and went out to work as usual. Ne\t thing »t heard was that siie wa- in hospital. "Violet was a very tall girl and old for her age. People often mistook her •for 2(». She also wns under the impression that the was much older than her (years.. Jones has been to see me since j the tragedy, and I do not blame him in i any way."