A YOUNG GIRL'S SUICIDE.
SHE DELIBERATELY WALKS IN FRONT OF A MOVING TBAIN. IBy Telegraph, i f Our Own Correspondent.} I PER S.S. TARAWERA AT THI BLUKF.J MEitBOtrRKK, 23rd August. A Magisterial enquiry has been held at Costlr maine into the cause of the death of a sprvant girl nfinicil Alice Porivine, who was killed through bi ing knocked down by a train. Ihe evidence proved that the girl deliberately committed Miicido, as she was nailing for the train, and when it was only 211 .\ arils from her she walked on to the line, took off her bat, Miiiled at the driver, bowed her head, and so met her fate. Her employer g.ne "lie.- a good character, but thought t--he was of weak intellect. The jury returned a verdict of Temporary Insanity.
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Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 52, 30 August 1893, Page 4
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132A YOUNG GIRL'S SUICIDE. Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 52, 30 August 1893, Page 4
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