GIRL’S MIDNIGHT VIGIL.
Ordeal To Save Her Sweetheart’s Life. London, July 16.
A young, woman described at an inquest at Barnet yesterday as terrible an ordeal as ever a girl had to undergo. Her name is Alice Hancock, and the inquest was being held on her sweetheart, Arthur Campbell Gillett, a chemist of New Barnet, who poisoned himself with oxalic acid. He threatened to commit suicide one evening last week, she said. She begged him not to, and all night long she waited with him in Hadley Woods, pleading with him for his lile.
Every moment —while it thundered and poured with rain she watched each movement of his hands, and at length persuaded him. by a stratagem, to give up the phial of oxalic acid he had in his possession. Then she made him promise never to try to commit suicide again. He broke his word, however, and that night he was found dead in his father’s garden with a cup of poison by his side.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 433, 8 September 1908, Page 4
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167GIRL’S MIDNIGHT VIGIL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 433, 8 September 1908, Page 4
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