SUICIDE BY FIRE
WOMAN’S AWFUL DEATH. ALTERCATION WITH HUSBAND. LONDON, Feb. 16.. The terrible story of how a woman named Mary Elizabeth West, aged 49, threatened to commit, suicide and then burned herself to death was told at the inquest at Islcworth to-day. “It is the most extraordinary ease in my experience,” said the coroner. The husband of the woman said that she always had cooled down after threatening suicide, but she actually did it in the fiorsicst manner last Tuesday. After a matrimonial altercation he left the room, thinking that it worn! blow over, as was customary in spite of her threat to set herself on fire. Subsequenty he heard screams and saw r her wrapped in fames. He rushed into the garden, extinguished the flames, and secured a doctor. She told a neighbour, before dying at the hospital, that she poured paraffin over herself because she was tired of life since her husband did not want her. A verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6543, 27 February 1928, Page 8
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