A MUNITION-WORKERS SUICIDE

Evening Star, Issue 16628, 10 January 1918, Page 6

A MUNITION-WORKERS SUICIDE

AIOTHKIUS FAREWELL LETTER. At Lambeth Coroner's Court the oilier day an inquest was hold on the body of Sarah Jacobs (aged 52), of Silverwood road, Kotherliithe. whose body was found in the Iharnas. Mrs Jacobs’s sister was acquitted the. previous week at West London Police Court nf a, charge of theft from a munitions factory. During the hearing of the case the witness stated that munition workers need tctryl powder ns hair dye. Hannah Willis, wife of a- farm hand, and sister of the deceased, stated at the inquest that .Sarah Jacobs was divorced from her husband about 12 months ago. Until six years ago she lived with a man who was afterwards killed, and their young son was receiving interest on a compensation’ award. After the man's death Jacobs went to live with Win. launders, but in August he married someone else, and this upset her very much. "It was a- ‘ flash' wedding, a few doors away in the same street,” said the. witness, "and she was troubled." A month ago Jacobs began munition work, and took the boy to another address. The two children of her marriage were in a Uighgate home. The Coroner : There was trouble between von over a ease at West London Police Court? The Witness; Not about that. I was charged with, (dealing pellets for her to dye her hair. The quarrel we had was a domestic one. One day she said: “Have you been out with my old man?” (meaning Saunders), and I told her I had not. She told me to clear out. The Coroner; Is Saunders here? A Police Officer: No; he is at Eastbourne. What is he doing there?-—He is on his honeymoon. A lodger at the same house as Jacobs said that at 2.30 a.rn. last Tuesday he heard her go out, and soon afterwards tho boy came crying with a piece of paper, on which she had written : Good-bye. God bless yon. I hope some day we may meet again, and you will understand my love for you and my love for Mr Saunders. I am your broken-hearted mother. Evidence was given thai»on’ September 18 a munition worker's overall was found on Wandsworth Bridge, with q case in which was the, following letter: My d»ar George,—l am sorry to go and not take, you with <lne ; but one dav you will be a- man, and I hope you will avenge your mother. I have taken care of you, to give you the best’ of everything, and what is hero is yours. It is what your father gave me, so what is mine is yours. I want you to take good care of yourself a:rul be a man, and if you find a girl you love bo good to her, and don’t go with others, for if you do you will be liko poor mother. The Coroner read the following letter, addressed “To Anyone,” which Mrs Jacobs had also left in her overall: Should anytliing happen to me, all I ask is for someone to take care of my boy, for it is quite plain to me that (1101x1 is no room in this world for Bill Sanudurs and me, and I think I will bo the one to go first. There would not have been any row if bo had not robbed my boy of his sideboard, for 1 bought it out of the money his father died for. And after me living with my Bill for six years ho turned mo out for a woman I have been a friend to. She had no boots to her feet, and I let her have a pair for 2s, but she kept me eight months for the money. I want to let the world know how much thanks you get for doing your best for others. t Kare had a good time, if T never live '"another day; but I hope the Lord will forgive me. and I ask my old Bill to do so, as he will not be very long after me. . This woman is bis wife and has got his name, but 1 have got bis love, and it is for his love that I die. I am doing this to leave him with her. If there is another world, I hope to meet him there. I am not insane or in drink. Good-bye to this world and my dear son. The fury returned, a. vardiut at “Suicide while insane.”