WOMAN’S SUICIDE
POIGNANT 4 LETTERS HAPPILY-MARRIED COUPLE (P.A.) 1 AUCKLAND, thi's day. Believing that she was suffering from pressure on the head, causing her mind to fade, a young and happilymarried woman after writing poignant letters to ‘lier friends and to the : coroner, donned a bathirtg suit and Vvent' into the sea at Blockhouse Bay, the body being found later. This was disclosed at the inquest on Nancy Freer, aged 31, who resided in Parnell: In a letter to some friends, Mrs., Freer wrote that had she known that: she* had pressure on the head she would not have married. She was a brilliant musician and had toured extensively in England and Canada. “In Aubrey I had the most‘wonderful husband any woman could have,” she wrote. “No one-else really understood me. I crinnot bear to leave him, but it’s better just drifting off. Help him through this. I hope he will remarry and save his happiness.” The husband gave evidence that they had lived happily and his wife bad no ill health until two months coroner, Mr: F. K. Hunt, S.M., returned a verdict of suicide by drowning; '
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20915, 15 October 1942, Page 5
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188WOMAN’S SUICIDE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20915, 15 October 1942, Page 5
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