A TUNNEL TRAGEDY
MENTAL PATIENT MANGLED. PROBABLY SUICIDE. The third fatality in Lyttelton tunnel within ten weeks occurred on Saturday night, when a woman of forty-two years of age (the wife of a Christchurch resident), who had l escaped from Sunnysicto Mental Hospital at 4.30 in the afternoon, received terrible injuries, from which she died in the Christchurch Hospital. When last seen the woman was standing on the platform just as the 5.25 train from Christchurch left Hcathcoto station to enter the tunnel.
At the inquest yesterday the medical superintendent of Buunyside Mental Hospital gave evidence that the woman probably committed suicide, as she had shown suicidal tendencies. The inquest was adjourned. The woman leaves a family of seven children.
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Evening Star, Issue 18280, 21 May 1923, Page 3
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120A TUNNEL TRAGEDY Evening Star, Issue 18280, 21 May 1923, Page 3
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