LOVE SUICIDE FROM DOVER CLIFFS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 9028, 5 November 1892, Page 10 (Supplement)

LOVE SUICIDE FROM DOVER CLIFFS.

Ax inquest was held at Dover a few days ago on the body of a young lady, named Margaret Dawtry Doig, aged twenty-two, belonging to London, whose body was found on the rocks near Dover. According to the evidence the height of the cliffs from which the deceased jumped is 300 ft, and the body would probably have been washed out to sea had it not been wedged between two rocks at the base of the cliffs. The following letter to the brother of the young man with whom she kept company was read by the coroner:—"Your letter destroyed the last hope I had, as no doubt it was in tended to. You are very kind whea you offer to help me; so kind indeed that you make me wonder whether you persuaded your brother to give me up. If so, you have been the means of wrecking my life. I am a good and intelligent woman, quite as well born as yourselves. And your brother would have been a better and a happier man had he been my lover. The worst part of his cruelty was that he thoroughly knew my worth. He professed to think himself very fortunate, as indeed he was, to have won me. He would have been ennobled mentally and morally by the alliance. No one knows this better than he himself. I was never able to care for any man until I met him. lhad day dreams, of course, but they were purely ideal. lam alone in the world, without a single creature to care for me. Your brother gave me a new interest in life. I should have existed solely for him. I do not want you to' imagine that I took my life in a frantic moment. I have been considering for several days whether I could bear co live on, and find I have not strength. I am going to Dover to walk over the cliffs. My death may perhaps be considered accidental ;so much the better. I wish your brother to know how I died. I have every right to be remembered by him, and he is still very dear to me. Will you do my memory the justice to tell him the truth ? If I wrong you by my suspicions I am sorry.—Margaret Dawtry Doig." There was no address given in this letter. The jury returned a verdict of suicide whilst temporarily insane.