DRIVEN TO SUICIDE BY HER HUSBAND.
An inquest was held at Port Adelaide recently on the body of a married woman named Helena Elizabeth Darroch, who committed suicide by drowning on Sunday evening. On the day of her death deceased wrote a long letter, stating that her husband was morally responsible for her act, owing to his cruel treatment of her for several years past. The letter also contained a statement to the effect that he had told her that unless she committed suicide he would murder her. James Darroch, husband of the deceased, admitted in his evidence having treated his wife in a barbarous .manner, but he denied the alleged threat to murder her. The jury returned a verdict of Buioide whilst in an unsound state of mind, with a strong censure upon Darroch for his inhumanity towards deceased. The coroner said that he was morally, though not legally, guilty of manslaughter.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 7903, 23 March 1887, Page 5
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