DISTRESSING TRAGEDY.
« WOMAN COMMITS SUICIDE. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, January 21. At Mt. Albert this afternoon a terrible tragedy was enacted, when a young married woman, named Mrs. Skccts, aged 26, took her life by cutting her throat with a razor. It appears that tho victim and her husband, a man of independent means, had only resided at Mt. Albert for about six months. They lived in a big house amidst beautiful surroundings near the railway station-. For some (lays past deceased had been in bad health, and this afternoon was lying on hor bed, a lady friend being present trying to soothe her. About a quarter past three o'clock sho got up from the bed and reached a Prayer Book from tho dressing table. After reading a little she replaced the book, but in doing so the sight of the razor evidently appealed to her shattered nerves as an easy way out of her misery, and before her friend could do anything to interfere she had seized tho razor and inflicted a fearful wound, completely severing her windpipe. Dr. Jones was sent for, but could only pronounce life extinct. Deceased came, from Te Puke, where her husband owned a station.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 101, 22 January 1908, Page 7
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202DISTRESSING TRAGEDY. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 101, 22 January 1908, Page 7
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