SUICIDE AT FOURTEEN.
GIRL'S DESPERATE ACT.
Their investigations have forced the police to the conclusion that the 14-year-old girl, whose body, shockingly mutilated, was found on the railway line near South Yarra, committed suicide, says a Melbourne paper.
The girl, Maisie Samson, was a ward of the State, and had been employed as a shop assistant ,at FUchmond. - The - circumßtan«||F indicate 'Hhat • she climbed an embankment on . the railway line and lay across the track with her head on one rail at a spot where the trains would be gathering speed after crossing the railway bridge. No motive for the girl's action has been discovered. v
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18322, 12 February 1923, Page 8
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