YOUNG WOMAN'S SUICIDE

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 74, 29 March 1922, Page 8

YOUNG WOMAN'S SUICIDE

The death of a young married woman named Alice Hawthorn, who was found in the Basin Reserve on Monday evening arid died at the Wellington Hospital later the 'same night, was the subject of an inquiry held in the Magistrate's Court this morning by the Coroner (Mr. W..G. Riddell, S.M.). Eva Bradley, a sister of the deceased, said the deceased had previously attempted suicide. Dr. Harris, a house surgeon at the Wellington Hospital, said that when deceased was admitted to the Hospital at 8.15 p.m. on Monday, she was in a profound state of shfcck. Her condition went to prove that she had taken an irritant. The cause of death was cardiac failure. Ivy Elizabeth Mullis, living at 1, Tainuiterraco, said that deceased had been in indifferent health, and during the .last few days had seemed depressed. Deceased left witness's house at 7 o'clock on Monday evening and said: "Goodbye, Ivy. ' I'm going to stop somewhere else now." Deceased did not take her belongings, and witness presumed that she would return for them. After further evidenco had been heard, the Cproner found that Mrs. Hawthorn died frj"l! the effects of an irritant poison, taken while in a state of mental depression.