A Sad Death.
On Friday afternoon Miss Mabel Hawkins, daughter of Mr R. S. Hawkins, solicitor, was found in the Botanical gardens lying on her back, with a bullet wound, from which the brains were protruding, in her forehead, and a six-chambered revolver, two barrels of which were empty, but only one had been discharged, lightly clasped in her right hand, and the left arm lying by her side. On the front of her dress was pinned a sheet of blood-stained paper, on which was written in pencil, in small cramped characters, the message : " Whoever finds me, break the news gently to my darling mother. Mabel Hawkins, 1, Bolton street, Wellington "
The deceased was about 19 years of age, has been recently suffering from extreme nervous depression, for which she was under treatment and was shortly about to leave Wellington for a change of air. About half- past 10 that morning she had left her home for a walk, which was nothing unusual as she was in the habit of frequently going to the Botanical Gardens for the purpose of sketching
An inquest was held on Saturday morning when a verdict was returned that the deceased shot herself while in a stave of hysteria, she not being responsible for her actions. — N.Z. Times.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 3 November 1891, Page 2
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213A Sad Death. Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 3 November 1891, Page 2
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