"A BLUE RAG"

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 18, 21 July 1924, Page 13

"A BLUE RAG"

MOTHER'S DREADFUL DISCOVERY.

(BJ TELEOIUPIS.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

CKRISTCHURCH,- 19th July. An inquest was held to-day on the body of Grace Eileen Scholefield, sixteen years of age, who had lived with her mother at Oxford terrace.

'"■ The mother stated that on 20th February the girl was committed to Sunnysi.de Mental Hospital, but on 16th April she was allowed to return to her home. Her .daughter, she said, .became erratic yesterday; she screamed violently and would not let anyone touch her. Dr. Orchard visited her once a week, hut he did not thimV she was bad enough to be- recommitted to the mental hospital. fc>ne was very bad last evening; she hecame violent; and went into town, returning later in the evening and going to her bedroom. Mrs. Scholefield said she went into the room at about 10 p m She sat on the bed .knitting for a while and, noticing- that the girl's head was not-resting on the pillow, she told her to move up. The girl, as was her habit had her face covered. "She did not answer. so I lifted back the clothes, and sho had a blue rag ronnd her neck," said Mra. Scholefield. "She did hot move or speak; I called out, hut she would not answer." I then discovered . that the gU 'l was dead. Mrs. Scholefield said she had not noticed any suicidal tendencies ahout the girl. The inquest was adjourned.