WOMAN'S SUICIDE.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20177, 4 March 1931, Page 11

WOMAN'S SUICIDE.

If *^;:*s!j! - ; INQUEST "-AT' ~ 1 (MUSS ABSCHJUpO^ 1 1 ' ,s vmmQTONt*iii^ss& V■ Failure on "the- jjart/ l ot brigadeaman to young woman who came up, to bun m v the street and asked . inhere " deepest water in the harbour was the" 'subject of comment' by*'Mr" '' Coroner, at' 'tb« > utq^est' : £mall, whose' body was -found in the harbour off Clydfe Quay 'on Upbruaiy' 21st. ' A' verdict was returned' Hhat 4 woman drowned iiereelf'-as .a tesultf of being mentally depressed 'through' 1 ill*, ness.' -■ v " ' Percy Collis, a fireman; vsaLd'tha&ipn, Ihe-evening of February pany with firemen, he, watf'stand-' j tng outside' the, Oetatral Stfctftm' a, young woman cams up ,afcd whepe the deepest water wa§.' She aiH I Beared hysterical and nervouß. / Wttn 1 tiesß did not .answer , her;, but .-one-of his companions told for -nat'/to^)>&; iaiyk *.: . * ■'; 'a The Coroner: Did it not. strike.you that you should have tried to.< Strain h herP > „*«■; • Witness: I did.not think ahything at : 'the. time. - v 1 * The Coroner: I can't fliicierfttaid *£t. It .was most callous indeed' not to Teh 1 , strain her. Don't yoq realise tfiatf if you men had 'remonstrated with "this woman you could possibly, have pre..' vented her-from drowning bursalf.' . The witness made no reply. '' ■ " Frederick Small, father" .of the in 6 statement which. was. read," said his daughter ployed as a tailbress. 1 He4asfc jgaw her about four, months ago, when, jbhe-paid a visit to her homo at Shannon after a.serious opgratiop. HerrperVe? 'Very bad.~, -' *. &