A woman named Minnie Brownhiil com- j milted suicide by poisoning at Castleroaine (Vic.) recently under most peculiar circumstances. A boy fired a. shot, and the pellet struck her apron and fell into her shoe, doing no harm. Her employer reported the matter to the police, and she 'became so despondent at the thought of giving evidence against the lad that'she soaked five wax mutches in water and drank the solu- , tion. j
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12860, 8 May 1905, Page 6
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