A SAD SUICIDE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9831, 24 June 1914, Page 5

A SAD SUICIDE.

LADY TEACHER OVERWROUGHT BY WORRY. (PU PtiPß AHPOCUTIOK 1 CHRISTCHUBCH. June 23. "She was in a state of mos acute menial j distress, almost amounting to collapse. She had received notice of suspension. Her manner throughout was that of a demented woman." Thi> statement. Made my a wit ness at an inquest held by Mr H. W. Bishop. S.M., today was ihe keynote of a shocking tragedy which occurred early i this morning. j Last night Miss Rubina Lcckie McGill. | forty-two years of age, a schoolmistress at , Cheney's, came to town in company wiih nor sister. They stayed the night at th« house of a friend, and about 5.30 this morn- , ing the sister awoke and found Miss Ru>bina Jyinp in the bathroom bleeding proj fusely. She died s few minutes laler. I Katherine Campbell McGill. sister of de ceased, stated thai her sister had been school teacher at Chaney's for about a month. Recently her sister had put on the i«eho..; r-gifier the name of a child not at tending: for this she Lad been suspended. This had preyed on her mind. She got very 'depressed about it. nnd went to a doctor a few days ago about her health. She had suffered from insomnia for some month-, i Ihe doctor gav.-> her a ecrtifiaite to get three weeks' leave of absence, but, sho had never received and leave, and had heard ; nothinc from the Board. | G. W Rus«oll. M.P.. {rave evidence rccarding the mental state of the deceased. On i Sunday d'wased saw him, and informed j him tha- she had committed an act of gnat folly at Chaney's. for which she was deeply sorry She said that in order to maintain her attendance in the register she had entered two attendances that were not correct Witness explained that the grading of schools and the salarie* of teachers were affected bv attendance*