Tragic Suicide of a Girl.
(Per Press Association.) Greyton, January 13. Maggie, a daughter of Mrs Mason, of Kai wiwi, who was spending a holiday at Maryborough left a letter saying she had committed suicide, and stating where the body was to be fonnd. An investiga* tion showed that she had tied a rope to a flax bush and round her neck and then jumped into the Ruamahunga river under the Waihinga Bridge, thereby both bang* ing and drowning herself. When, found this morning she was dead) and ehowtd signs of baring struggled furiously and it is supposed suffered terrible agony. No ground for the act is known.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 167, 14 January 1895, Page 2
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