A SAD TRAGEDY
MOTHER’S AWFUL ACT. Brass Association—By Tc'l*«T«.ph—Copyrljllt LONDON, March 28, Mrs Evans, aged 24, was committed for trial for throwing her baby from a window of the Ipswich Infirmarywhile she was suffering from a fit of depression. The governor and doctor of Norwich Prison allowed her to sit and sew in the laundry where the other women were working. Suddenly she threw herself into a copper of boiling water, and died of scalds. Her last words were: “They cannot take me to ipeiyich for trial now, doctor.”—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19134, 31 March 1924, Page 5
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92A SAD TRAGEDY Otago Daily Times, Issue 19134, 31 March 1924, Page 5
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