TIRED OF LIFE
A WANGANUI TRAGEDY. WANGANUI. January 26. ‘‘l am doing the only thing that is left for me. I have never know what it is to be happy. 1 am tired of the life I have always.had. I hope that you will manage all right., and that the rest of your life will be happy. My cross has been too heavy to bear, and I am going to my wellearned rest. Good-bye. Do not fret. Be good to tlie children and comfort them in their sorrow, for 1 am going to my long rest.” The above is the text of a note written by Mrs R. Matson, of Heads road, who is reported missing from her home. Mrs Matson suffered from ill-health, and was about to undergo an operation. On Wednesday night slip went to bed as usual, but next morning she was missing, and her husband found the pitiful note that indicated the worst. A search was immediately made, with police assistance, but all they found was the print of her bare feet in the mud near the Imlay wharf. To-day the police made an extended search, but the liver was in flood, and their efforts were without results.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3594, 30 January 1923, Page 29
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202TIRED OF LIFE Otago Witness, Issue 3594, 30 January 1923, Page 29
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