YOUNG GIRL SUICIDES.
Wanganui, May 20.
Emma Gilligan, 17 years ot age, daughter of Francis Gilligan, a well-known farmer at Waitotara, drowned herself on Saturday afternoon. In the morning she seemed moody, and went to her bedroom, where she read letters and then burfied them. Following this she walked to the other side ol the lake, and in answer to- her stepmother’s call said that she was going to drown herself. In spite of protests she walked into the water and disappeared. Life was extinct when the body was recovered. At the inquest a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1046, 21 May 1912, Page 3
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102YOUNG GIRL SUICIDES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1046, 21 May 1912, Page 3
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