MIGRANT’S MOTHER.

Grey River Argus, 5 November 1928, Page 5

MIGRANT’S MOTHER.

SUICIDES THROUGH LONELINESS. (Received November 4 at 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. November 3. Owing to depression, partly due to her son leaving for Australia in January, Mrs Mary Hocken Surosbree aged 48 years, of Fulham, committed suicide by gas poisoning. Her* husband, Mr Charles Williapr* Shrosbrec, a coffee shop proprietor, admitted that a divorce had been discussed. He said: “I couldn’t give her all the love that she wanted. I have knocked about the world; I went through the war, and was train-wrecked and torpedoed., and 1

my brain was practically deadened.” The Coroner gav e a verdict of dea’h while of unsound mind. He said that the more of thc people that went to the Colonies, the better it would be for England.