WOMAN’S TRAGIC DEATH.
“COULD NOT LIVE WITHOUT BABY.” Haiwera, (March 7. Mrs. Gladys Ethel Evans, aged 27, threw herself in front of a railway train at the Turuturu road crossing, HaWera, on Tuesday morning, while she was in a state of deep mental depression. That was the verdict of Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., the coroner, at the inquest at Ha/wera last night. A note discovered by the husband, Williatm Rupert Evans, on his returfi home for lunch read, in part: “Do not blame yourself Billy. You were all a husband could be, but I could not live without baby.” “It is an extremely sad case,” said tile coroner, “and I think the sympathy of everyone of us will go out to the husband and the relatives of deceased.” When the husband left for work in the morning his wife appeared to be natural in, the circumstances, which were that she had lost a baby, stillborn a few days before. On Tuesday she gave her husband instructions as to orderinglthe day’s supplies. The engine crew saw a woman standing on the cattle -stop when the train was three hundred yards away. She appeared not to hear the loud whistle blasts, and when the train was a few yards off she picked up a dog and apparently fell before the wheels. Death was instantaneous and beyond prevention.
James Ash, ,a driver, said he saw Mrs. Evans sitting with a dog on the roadside .twenty minutes before lhe train- came. A maternity nurse gave evidence as to the nervous state of her late patient. Insomnia, nerve trouble and deep depression had followed a period in a maternity home, which Mrs. Evans loft on Friday. The husband said nothing had been done or said to arouse his suspicions.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3916, 9 March 1929, Page 3
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295WOMAN’S TRAGIC DEATH. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3916, 9 March 1929, Page 3
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