TOOK PRISON WHILE DEPRESSED
INQUEST ON A MARRIED WOMAN. An inquest into the death of Mrs. Margaret Wallace (aged 46), who was admitted to the Public Hospital last rnday suffering from the effects ot poison, and who (lied the following i n ?i o,l a l l ! r’ was held by Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M. (Coroner), in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday afternoon. , , ... Dr. Morton gave evidence that (learn was due to poisoning. John Alexander Wallace, confectioner, husband of the deceased, stated that his wife had been suffering from fits ot depression since the death of her daughter about five years ago. ®n Friday morning, however, she appeared to be in good spirits and cooked the breakfast as usual.. Later, Mho wont out to make some purchases, and on her return went upstairs. Shortly afterwards, sho came downstairs and said she had taken poison: Witness got a doctor, who ordered his,wife’s removal to the Hospital. Tho Coroner found that the deceased died.as the result of drinking disinfectant, self-administered, while tn a state of depression. .
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 56, 30 November 1926, Page 15
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174TOOK PRISON WHILE DEPRESSED Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 56, 30 November 1926, Page 15
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