GIRL'S MIDNIGHT VIGIL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13748, 10 September 1908, Page 8

GIRL'S MIDNIGHT VIGIL.

ORDEAL TO SAVK HER SWKKT-

HE ART'S LIFK

LONDON, July 10

A young woimin described at an jnquest at Unmet yesterday as terrible an ordeal as ever a girl bad to undergo. Her name is Alice Hancock, and the inquest was being held on her sweetheart, Arthur Campbell "(Jillett, a chemist of Now Harnet, who poisoned himself with oxalic acid. He threatened to commit suicide one evening last week, she said. Sim begged him not to, and all night long she wailed with him in Hadley Woods, pleading with him for his life. Every moment — while it thundered and poured with rnin- -she watched each movement of his bauds, and at length persuaded him, by a stratagem, to give up the phial of oxalic acid he had in his possession. Then she made him promise never to try to commit suicide again.

TTo broke bis word, bowovor, and that night ho was found (load in lm father's pardon with a cup of poison by bis side.