CROWBOROUGH TRAGEDY.
EVIDENCE OF SUICIDE.
LONDON, Mar. 15.—Three girl clerks testified to Elsie Cameron’s nervousness and worry over her work, and her talk of going mad. A mental specialist, deduced from her medical history that she was acutely neurasthenic and potentially suicidal.
“Amiable, courteous, unselfish and a general favourite” was the description of Thorne given by an intimate acquaintance. Two doctors who made a post, mortem after the exhumation deduced from certain bruises on the neck that death was due to shock, probably the result of an attempt at hanging. A murderous blow they said, would have smashed the skull.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Wairarapa Age, 17 March 1925, Page 5
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102CROWBOROUGH TRAGEDY. Wairarapa Age, 17 March 1925, Page 5
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