BRIDE’S TRAGIC DEATH.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1278, 30 July 1914, Page 4

BRIDE’S TRAGIC DEATH.

DROWNS HERSELF ON WED-

DING DAY,

“I find that I cannot live like this any longer. I am sorry for all the trouble I have caused you, but everybody seems so different to me. I hope you will think of me as best you can. Give my love to Stanley. I hope God will reward him for all his kindness. Am so sorry for all. God bless you. My head seems so queer,” This message, addressed to her mother, was found in the mackintosh pocket of Amy Elizabeth Bartlett, 27, of Derby, who committed suicide by drowning. A peculiar pathetic feature of the case was that the deceased was to have beeu married in the afternoon at Holy Trinity Church to a man with whom she had been keeping company for over six years. At the inquest, the mother, a widow, stated that her daughter had suffered from neurasthenia for some time, and at times complained of pains in her head. On her wedding morning, at 8.30, she left the house, saying she would go for a short walk as her head was bad, and that she would bring in a pair of gloves for the wedding. There had been no quarrel between her daughter and her young man, the Stanley referred to in her letter, and she bad never threatened to commit suicide. Half an hour after leaving home Miss Bartlett was seen by a boy to place her mackintosh on the rails of the Long Bridge, remove her spectacles and false teeth, and then climb over and drop into the wafer. She was quickly swept over the weir, and her body was not recovered until the evening. A verdict of “suicide during temporary insanity” was returned.