BURNED TO DEATH
WOMAN’S FATAL DEPRESSION.
[By Telegraph, Per Press Association.]
AUCKLAND, Sept. 3.,
A-verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned at the inquest on Annie Elizabeth Bishop, aged 47, widow of the late Constable Bishop, who yesterday was found burned to death in a paddock near her home at Birkenhead.
Evidence was given that- deceased had been very/ depressed and in ill health. She went to church with her sister on Sunday evening, and at about - .3;) she went to sleep by herself in a sleeping porch. Her sister had been taking sleeping draughts. Constable C. Snow, of Birkenhead, stated that the body, which was considerably burned, was lying face downwards under some pine- trees. The clothes had been burned off, only the slippers remaining. Near the body there was an empty quart bottle which had contained kerosene, and a box containing burned matches. Over a patch, aoout a yard square, x pine needles seemed to have been scraped together, and the body was lying on these. “I knew' deceased and she said herself she was going downhill,” said the constable. “I do not think she was mentally strong, and was not surprised at her committing suicide, .
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 September 1929, Page 5
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