A SAD SUICIDE.
Auckland, April 12. Louisa Maud, aged 20, wife of Charles Black, foreman of the D.S.C. furniture factory, cut her throat this evening in her bedroom with her husband's razor. She had only been a few months married. She had a miscarriage yesterday, and seemed progressing favourably, but while her mother was out of the bedroom she committed the rash act. She has been suffering from insomnia for the past fortnight, and had been in delicate health for 12 months. At the inquest a verdicb was returned of " Temporary insanity." Her maiden name was Wilson.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2303, 21 April 1898, Page 13
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117A SAD SUICIDE. Otago Witness, Issue 2303, 21 April 1898, Page 13
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