THE WARKWORTH TRAGEDY.
THE MOTHER SUICIDES
Auckland, Monday.
The woman, Mary Winchester Hall, who killed her child at Warkworth recently, and who was directed by the Judge at the Supreme Caurt during the week, to be detained in a mental hospital during the pleasure or the Minister for Justice, hanged herself at the institution yesterday with a sheet. At the inquest the jury found that the woman hanged herself and added that it was an error of judgment to permit her to have ■sheets. It was stated by the superintendent that she could not be properly looked after, owing to overcrowding.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1138, 26 August 1913, Page 4
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101THE WARKWORTH TRAGEDY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1138, 26 August 1913, Page 4
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