SUICIDE IN NILE STREET.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12455, 3 February 1909, Page 2

SUICIDE IN NILE STREET.

YOUNG WOMAN SHOOTS HERSELF. A tragedy occurred late on Monday night, a married woman named Minchin, about 26 years of age, who was residing apart from her husband, • at No. 52, Nile-street, shooting herself with, a revolver. It appears that Mrs Minchin was living with her brother, sister and her daughter, and that during the .evening .all of them, with the exception of the brother, had been out driving with Mr Aitcheson Smith, the City Engineer, in the latter' s motor car. Mrs Minchin had been in ill-health for sometime, and had been attended' by a doctor. On Monday evening she complained of not feeling well, and the drive was arranged at her request, as she thought it might n^ r S°°d. ■The party returned to the house betwee nten-and eleven o'clock, when it appears that the two young women -and- the child went to bed, in the same room. Mr Smith took the car away and came back to the house a -f ew minutes later, and finding all in bed was preparing to leave, when two shots were fired. It was found that Mrs Minchin had shot herself through the head with a revolver, which .was picked up on the floor near the bed. She expired in a very few minutes after the'commission of the act. Dr. Lucas was at' once summoned, arid tlie, police were communicated -. with, they taking charge of the body, which was removed to the morale yesterday morning. The- deceased young woman 1 had been resident in the .city for , some time, having been in employment in hotels prior to taking up her abode in Nile-street. It is understood that her parents reside on the West Coast. ...'.'. \