DEPRESSED WOMAN’S DEATH
OVERWORKED ON FARM
HOME, CHILDREN. COWS
HAMILTON, Oct. 17
A verdict of suicide by poisoning while suffering from acute mental depression, was returned by the coronei, Mr. Wyve.ru Wilson, S.M., at the inquest concerning the death last Saturday of Elizabeth Mary Liddington, aged 35, wife of Mr. Amo? Liddington, farmer, of Rukuhia. The coroner, in giving his verdict, said the woman had been doing housework and looking after three children. a.s well as milking cows morning and evening Owing to overwork her health”broke down, and she suffered from hallucinations and mental depression, as the result of which she wa admitted to a mental hospital. 1 lie superintendent released her on the representation of her husband that them were two women at the farm to look after her. However, she was lei' alone in her disturbed condition and she took her life. . . “It is a very sad case indeed, no concluded.
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Hawera Star, Volume LII, 20 October 1932, Page 8
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