WOMAN SCHOLAR'S SUICIDE.
(united press association—b* electbio TEI/EGBAPH—COPVBIOHT'.^ LONDON, March 7. In finding a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind, the Coroner commented on the sad ending of the brilliant career of Jean Marjoria Graham Alexander, aged_ 43, who was found at W'ymering Mansions, Maida Vale, with ber head in a gas oven, covered with an eiderdown. She spent six years in New Zealand loking after the Fotheringham family. Mr Fotheringham came to Pa,ris, where he died; Miss Alexander suffered from depression. She was first in the tripos, Cambridge, and a Master o| Arts of London University. [The death of Mr Alexander Fotheringham at Geneva on February 25th was reported in our columns last Monday. He was formerly well known in Auckland, having resided in that City from 1921 to the end of 1930.]
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20491, 9 March 1932, Page 15
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135WOMAN SCHOLAR'S SUICIDE. Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20491, 9 March 1932, Page 15
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