DREAD OF DISEASE
GIRL) COMMITS SUICIDE.
TRAGIC FEAR UNWARRANTED
(Bv Telegraph —Press Association.) ' GHRIOTOHURCH, Oct. 13. A verdict of suicide While in a disturbed state of mind was returned at the inquest to-day into the death of Winsome Eleanor AlcGatlan, aged 23, who died in the Christchurch hospital on September 24 as the result of injuries when she threw herself over the cliffs at Scarborough. A note found .in a handbag stated her intention to commit suicide. Medical evidence was to the effect that the girl had been depressed by fear of tuberculosis, but was perfectly healthy.
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Hawera Star, Volume LI, 13 October 1931, Page 9
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97DREAD OF DISEASE Hawera Star, Volume LI, 13 October 1931, Page 9
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