WOMAN’S SUICIDE
. CORONER BLAMES WIDOWER By Telegraph.—Press Association. Gisborne, July 31. A verdict of suicide by drowning whilst in a state of acute mental depression was returned by the Coroner at the conclusion of the inquest touching the death of Mrs. Ellen Spivey, aged 46, whose body was found in.the Mangapapa Creek. “It seems that the cause of this unfortunate woman’s death was undoubtedly the treatment she received from her husband," said the Coroner. Mr. P. H. Harper, S.M. “As the result of his conduct and the loss of his affection, her mind and health were so much affected that she took her own life, and did not know what she was doing.”
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 262, 1 August 1929, Page 11
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113WOMAN’S SUICIDE Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 262, 1 August 1929, Page 11
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