A WOMAN'S SAD ACT.
AT LONGBURN. (M TXtsanAPH.—SPSOIAI, PVIRIISPoijDtMT.) Palmfirston North, Slay 27. A woman: named Mrs. Miller, wife of a railway official at Longburn, wm admitted to the: hospital yesterday I afternoon, -suffering from the results of .what seems to'have been. a determined attempt to commit Buicide. It appears that Mrs. Miller,'who has been in ill-health for years past, left :the' house and -walked to a haystack some 'short distance away, where she'inflicted sevoral severe: wounds with' a razor taken from her hraband's-r00m.:,-.-From the haystack the unfortunate woman dragged herself back to the • house,. where she was found by her daughter, who at onoe took steps to obtain surgioal: assistance. Dr. Martin was/telephoned for, and\on arrival ascertained from the. woman's condition that, in addition to other injuries, she had also 'taken some opium pille. After dressing her wounds, the doctor ordered ' her _ removal to the : hospital, where she now lies in a precarious state. Mr. Miller has been away from homo for some days: past, employed on the railway at Ofcaki. So far no reason can bo assigned for the act. ' ' (
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 519, 28 May 1909, Page 8
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182A WOMAN'S SAD ACT. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 519, 28 May 1909, Page 8
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