ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
<» iBT TELEGBArn. — PHESS ASSOCIATION.} AUCKLAND, This Day. An elderly woman named Frances Richard, who resided with her husband in Brown-street, Ponsonby, committed suicide by hanging herself shortly after five o'clock last evening. She. had been ill, and her husband went out to get her medicine. On returning to tho house he found his wife's body suspended to the back door by means of a strap. A doctor was summoned, but efforts to induce respiration .were unsuccessful. !"> / Later. At an inquest touching the death of Frances -Richard, who committed suicide by hanging, her husband stated that she feared the loss of her eyesight, and that a- specialist had said she suffered fiom a peculiar affection, the, effect of which was that sho feared the light. The jury returned a verdict of death while of unsound mind.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 147, 18 December 1907, Page 7
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138ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 147, 18 December 1907, Page 7
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