ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF 4 GIRL.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8557, 10 August 1893, Page 5

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF 4 GIRL.

(FBSSS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, August 9. Edith May George, seventeen years of age, employed as a nurse girl by Mr Walter Lewis, butcher, dissolved thirty-one match heads in ateaspoonful of milk and drank the same to-day. Upon being questioned the unhappy young girl confessed that she had attempted to poison herself, and gave as the reason for so doing that she was not good enough to live. There is every reason to believe that the girl is suffering from religious mania. She was in tbe habit of attending the Helping Hand Mission and the Salvation' Army services, and of late she has expressed great concern about her salvation. Last night, upon returning home to her mother's residence in Hobson street, her mother states that she refused to go to bed, but sat reading her Bible and saying prayers. Although repeatedly urged to desist, she still continued stopping up until late in the night. At the time a girl committed suicide in Onehunga by eating matches Miss George said that was what she would do also if people were to talk about her. She was sent to the Hospital in a precarious condition.