SKULL AND CROSSBONES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19334, 26 May 1937, Page 12

SKULL AND CROSSBONES

DEAD GIRL'S DIARY "FRD UP WITH LIFE" LONDOX, April 1. A diary in which a young Welsh girl had written her reflections on life and death, and had drawn a skull and crossvbones, was produced at a Paddington inquest yesterday on Mail" Aeron -Morgan, aged 20. The diary was found in a room where the girl ga.ssed herself at an apartment house in York street, Marylebono. A verdict of suicide While of unsound mind w T as returned. it was stated that the girl was an orphan, and before coming to London she was eared for by her unelei and aunt, who live in Clara street, Ton Pentre, South Wales. On Christmas Eve, 1934, she camo to London as a probationer nurse at Mile End Hospital, but without notifying anyone, she walked out in May, 1906, and was not heard of until October, when she wrote to because it was her birthday. In the letters she asked forgiveness. On October 2d she went home, but insisted on returning to London liecause she did not like quietude. She afterwards wrote on several occasions tor money, and this was sent to her. Last Wednesday .she engaged flic room where the tragedy occurred. The coroner, Mr. Ingleby Oddie, said there was no doubt the girl was remorseful. In her diary were the words: "1 am fed up with life." "This ;s not surprising," said Mr. Cddie, "When one sees the sort of life she had been leading. I think she was a temperamental girl, who had tried ajt times to lead a,satisfactory life, but was impatient of restraint."