A GIRL ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2432, 11 February 1895, Page 2

A GIRL ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.

Aliout 1 o'clock yesterday morning Constable Cassells was informed that a girl flamed Alice Muir, who was. staying at tho Panama Hotel, had taken poison'; After seeing the girl lie at once sent for Hr Parkes, who, after administering an emetic, ordered her removal to the Hospital, whither the constable conveyed hot In it cab. - .

A matchbox was found on a chair by tho girl’s bedside, and she admitted having taken a quantity of match heads, saying she had no desire to live. She added that she would try carbolic acid tho next time, and Dr Parkes gave orders that she was to be closely watched. Previous to staying at tho hotel the girl bad been in the service of Mr Devlin, grocer, Cuba street. Her friends reside in Auckland.

Among her effects was found a letter addressed to “ Mother ”-as follows: —“ You will miss me from home, dear mother—miss mo from my place. I am going: My life is passed. You and 1 must part atlast. Farewell, my dear brothers and sisters, but not for ever. There will come a' glorious day when wo meet to part no more. Though my body lies sleeping in tho cold and silent tomb, I shall have a glorious waking when tho blessed Lord doth come.—l remain, your loving daughter and sister, Alice Muir." On another sheet of paper tho poor girl had written the same letter "To my mother.’’ She is, at latest accounts, pronounced out of danger.