AN AWFUL TRAGEDY.
More (says tho Pall Mall Gazette) ip a t>m of !|i'< 1* g-.u en v\ : .c:M man :b iui wiih painful ct a' nc tiOiJ Jc posj?«> c go public in'ores', lor i o;ily concur.' 8 ■• vary f oor youtig woDinn w ln> c.'>m>j<i ed suicide m tho no; h f \i /n.-.1-.n, 'n y lh> hin? m lliß p.ipere o-.eie i iv t piborrow and tlWr« fjis? m U'j.vorfn' ■ n general interttt Tao p.ior creatur-. who at the aj;u of tweiny-niue, fi uud h.^re? m a dtc'ine »md tortured by rhoumat c ttver, had often praye'l to bo relieved oi her m-sary, bu r . hid pray*d ia ra n. What tollowtd wa3 told as folow.» btf >re the oor.nßr :— " On Tu»Bday sl.e bad ocr husband an »ffrtct!o;ate gond-bye on bis leaving for work, and ehortly aftm he had gono 1< eked h^r children m ih:ir room at tho top of the h use, havhg told them she was goiog to die. The eldest boy, ag*d a->oiu six, looked through r he keyhole, aid obaervud his mother a«jaat'n^ a ropa found her neoV, having 'led the r po to tie trapd tor m tbe room In an a;=;ony of fear ho a-iaaii a chopper, and eadoavour.d to brouk tha lock, but hs s-.rengih was not equal to U, and ha h w his mothdr throw huraelf from a stool aid Wangle from the trapdoor. Tho Qiisi of hin chopping brought oom* ouo up, but tie woman w« dead." Poor litt(t) fullow, and only six yoara old ! What a grim and awf<il picture is that of the child straining his little arms — and «i raining them m vain — to chop through the door behind which his mother wai slowly strangling herself to death.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1482, 14 February 1887, Page 3
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295AN AWFUL TRAGEDY. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1482, 14 February 1887, Page 3
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