ANOTHER INFLUNZA VICTIM. AUCKLAND, January 24.
A'sad'case of suicide" ocourred~-£his~inorn7 irig,"--xn * Gox street,. Ponsonby, ' a married; yeoman.'named, Ellen Haynes, aged 42 years,. ■beiQg*tne yictim-..,- At about 5 o'clocfcVthos Hidrning her .htjaiband left,to» go. to his-work-"when " the- deceased ' seemed A,in her, ordinary* health. A little more than 'an. • hour later, her son was passing, along one of the - passages, when' he '-made the awful ■discovery of the body of- his -mother harig1 ing "by a rope attached- to v a beam. uover, the door. , From * the position of. the body,, it would appear,, that' the^ unfortunate womah, after,fixing iKe rope round her neck, had sunk,on her knees-and thus strangled her? -self.-. Some four-months ago the deceased 'had a bad attaok of influenza, and since then, hid --frequent periods of, depression.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 29 January 1908, Page 67
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129ANOTHER INFLUNZA VICTIM. AUCKLAND, January 24. Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 29 January 1908, Page 67
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