STARVATION AND SUICIDE.

Evening Star, Issue 12163, 6 April 1904, Page 1

STARVATION AND SUICIDE.

Dire poverty, leading- to temporary madness, would seem to have been the determining cause of the death of Mrs Edith Collett, whose mangled body was found on the London and North-western line near Kilbum,, With her husband, two young children, and: a young brother-in-law, she lived in Salisbury road, Kilburn. Collett is a laborer, who for some time has been unable to obtain employment, and Ihe family’s distress became very acute. One morning Collett heard of a vacancy at Eickmansworth, and, accompanied by his younger brother, he went in search of employment.. During bis absence his wife muat have gone to the garden, where she first tried to cut her throat with her husband’s razor. Failing in tills, she must have climbed the fence which divided the garden from the railway line, and thrown herself under a train. Unsuccessful at Rickmanswerth, Collett tramped bach to London, to find his wife missing and the children crying for their mother. His search for her ended at the police station, where he learned of her terrible fate.