HORRIBLE SUICIDE OF A WOMAN.

Evening Post, Volume XV, Issue 214, 12 September 1877, Page 2

HORRIBLE SUICIDE OF A WOMAN.

A painful sensation was created in town to-day by the news that a woman had committed suicide by cutting her body open with a razor— literally ripping herself up. On enquiry this proved to be but too true. It appears that last evening Mr. Stinson, who is in the employ of Messrsi Barber, butchers, on returning home went to see his wife, who bad been unwell, and was lying itt bed: To His horror he found the bed covered with 1 blood, aiid tier' Hands deeply dyed with the same, while in one she held a razor also bloody. On turning down the bedclothes, he found a fearful wound on her body— evidently self-inflicted— just below the ribs on the left side. He rushed off instantly for medical aid, and Dr. Watts- of Collegestreet promptly attended, but at once pronounced the case a hopeless one. Dr. Watts did all that medical skill could suggest to alleviate the sufferings of the unfortunate woman, but she sank rapidly, and expired at an early Hotif this morning; The deceased had been married 19 years, and always lived on the best of terms with her husband. An inquest, of course, will be held, when possibly some further particulars may be available. There are no children.