WAITED FOR DEATH.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 56, 8 March 1941, Page 7

WAITED FOR DEATH.

r| WOULD-BE suicide. : YOUNG MOTHER RESCUED. 1 (By Air.) SYDNEY, March 4. A mother of 19 who, after abandoning her baby at Ashfield Infante* Home, decided to kill herself, is alive to-day because she Jorpot to lock the door ef the room in which the attempted to gaa herself. She told her story after her recovery in hospital. She said she had been left an orphan at I~> and came t* j Sydney from Queensland to look 'work. A year i-ht met a man "with an «>ily i• who said he could not ■ afford marriage isi -1 yet. but persuaded I her 'o 2" and I:if wilh him. Kour i month- before "lie baby »a- born he d*-.. p;«eare<L .! "The thought of what I had done <te ha by and the dread of to gaol I I preyed on my mind." said the girl. "I had no money to pay the rent of my i room and hardly any left even to buy food, so 1 suddenly decided to end it ;aIL For babv\» sake I decided that I i would be better ri;rht out of this world. 1 was. quite calm when 1 made up my .mind that 1 would kill m_\r«-]f. I went .round the room. stopjiinz up the window* and fanl.jrlit. and then 1 -;i1 down at lbe iabl«- with the jras ■ rin~ next to me. and turned on the ;;a-. "Rut wi:h all t iie preparations 1 made, 1 forgot tb<; ino-t imj»orlatil th.n: — I ior«ot t<i ]<«-k the d 0.,!. ] had no i'-ar of death, iu-t a feelinjr of calm. and 'that. w>on all mv trouble* would be over. I mu-t haw W-en ju-t al<out to <-onsc"ousne*s when 1 beard a voice, 1 which seemed to i-oine to me from a ' 2Teat distance. What the mire said L> 11 don't know, but when 1 camp to my r i senses I was ly on my }>ed. with the " doctor and other people *iand:ii™ beside 3 me.'' °| The girl's life, hcnrcvfr. is apparently not as hopele-s a- it reined to her in r her worried condition, for she said lhat n meantiTno she had m<-t a your; man tjwho her -1 • >;y <njd wanted to ; marry ii^~.