A YOUNG WIFE'S SUICIDE.
DEATH FROM EATING MATCHES. [BY telegraph.-—mess association.]
Christchcrch, Sunday. ■■ Ax inquest was held yesterday touching the death of Rose Christina Mildred Owens, who died at the hospital on the previous night. William John • Owens, labourer, husband of deceased, said she was 19 years old. He married her in January after she had been 18 months in the Teorangi Home. She often spoke of doing away with herself, saying she was tired of life. On Monday last she locked herself in her room for a time, and afterwards complained of internal pains. A doctor was called in, and; deceased was taken to the hospital. Dr. Crooke, house surgeon at the hospital,'' said deceased had sucked the heads off about 60 matches, and death was the result of phosphorous poisoning. ~.■' ..;:; • The Coroner said that the . girl: had) come before him in the Magistrate's Cour|, and had struck him as being peculiar. Itywas a marriage that should never have taken place, but no one could be blamed. A verdict of suicide while of unsound mind, was returned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13498, 27 May 1907, Page 5
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178A YOUNG WIFE'S SUICIDE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13498, 27 May 1907, Page 5
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