SUICIDE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18432, 16 March 1922, Page 5

SUICIDE.

MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN’S SAB END. After being in ill-health, despondent and depressed for some time, requiring careful watching by her relatives, a married woman, Mrs W. Kydd, aged .50 years, yesterday morning took her own life. Satuday last was the anniversary of the birthday of a son who died with the epidemic She had a specially bad turn then and, unknown to her husband, she went to Marton to visit the grave. Friends observed her there and thinking her behaviour was queer, brought her in to her son’s residence in Halswell Street. On Tuesday morning she seemed mentally unbalanced, and yesterday morning, when friends called to enquire as to her state, she considered the motor car was coming to take her away. Her daughter-in-law allayed her fears in that direction, but very soon the lady stole away to the bathroom. Being anxious, the daughter-in-law called out to see that all was right. She received two responses, but. none to the third enquiry. The door was then burst in and the unfortunate woman was found to have used a pair of scissors to cut her carotid artery. She was dead before Dr. Anderson could be called in The Coroner, Mr T. A. B. Bailey, held an enquiry in the aftelrnoon and on the evidence given he returned a verdict, that, deceased had died from a self-inflicted wound while in * state of mental unbalance.