GIRL'S DEATH LEAP

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23109, 6 August 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)

GIRL'S DEATH LEAP

"FATAL FASCINATION" WORRY OVER TRIFLES - ■ 1 EXPLANATION BY CORONER "Why did I do it? I shan't die, dexs tor, shall I?" cried a young Welsh domestic servant after she had thrown herself in front of a District train at Victoria Station,' London. A verdict of "Suicide while of unsound mind" was returned Mr* jnglebv Oddv, the coroner, at the « ,cs minster inquest on the girl, Mary Char; lotte Thomas, aged 24, of Maesteg, South Wales, who died from the injuries she sustained. Mr. lngleby Oddie said it was one of many cases that he had investigated in which n person worrying about trifles looked at a train entering a station and yielded to some sudden insane impulse to jump in front of it. , A young motor driver, Leo Devign , said he had known the girl, whose mother was in South Wales, for six or seven months, and was unofficially 0 gaged to her. He had not given her a ri, When ho last saw her lie told her ho was going to see an old school ien , • Devigno added that when he said was going out, Miss 'lhomas did n like it at first; but she was quite all right when lie explained to her who was going to moot. . A woman relation of Devigne g evidence that there was no quarrel, ana she went to Victoria Station with the girl, who was rather depressed. Further evidence revealed that when railway officials went to her assistant: she said: "Get me out! Get me out I Why did I do it 9 " . , Referring to the fact that t R had been worrying because she "' n ® , of employment, Mr. Odche that she would have had no difficulty in finding another situation there , so many more open places than tfler . were .English servants to till them.