GIEL TAKES POISON
".N TAGGIKG" ABOUT MARIAIAGE (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) ■ T.E AKOHA, 19th December. Aii adjourned inquest into the death of a young single woman named Edith Pearl Fletcher was continued to-day before Mr. J. Motley, Coroner. Evidence showed that before her death the girl admitted taking poison in a stationary motor-car at 11.30 p.m. while on a visit to Te Aroha from her home in Morrinßville on the evening of 6th December. The girl's fiance, George Brodie, stated that she had been worried because her parents did not approvo of her marriage, and had previously threatened to commit suicide unless the family stopped "nagging" at her on the subject. The Coroner found that death was due to poison, self-administered, while suffering intense mental depression.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 148, 20 December 1930, Page 11
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125GIEL TAKES POISON Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 148, 20 December 1930, Page 11
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