SUICIDE OF A SEAMAN'S WIFE.

Mt Benger Mail, Volume I, Issue 44, 2 March 1881, Page 2

SUICIDE OF A SEAMAN'S WIFE.

A SAD STORY An inquest was held in London relative to the death of Margaret Kinswell, 32, of Regent's Terrace, Victoiia Docks, who committed suicide on Wednesday by cutting her throat. The evidence showed the husband of the deceased, Thomas Kinswell, a boatswain, left for New York about a fortnight since, leaving her some money to provide some woollen underclothing by his return, and she, being under the belief that she had been rcbbsd of some of it, became very much depressed, and cut her throat shortly before eight o'clock on the morning of Wednesday last. A letter was read to the jury, written in red ink by the deceased, just before the suicide, to her sister in Glasgow, stating that the writer had been robbed of some money and did not know how she could face her husband, and asking her sister to lend her £2 " to save ruin to her body aud soul," adding, in unmistakeable language, that if she could not get the money she would make way with her - self. It had, however, not been posted, and was found on a trunk in the room occupied by the woman. A slate was also laid before the jury, upon which was written ihe address of her mother in Glasgow, and an appeal to her to take care of her infant, only two months old. This was written after the deceased had cut her throat, and during the writing of the words the blood must have kept dropping upon the slate. The son of the husband of the deceased was questioned, and he

said that his father told him that if his mother should say anything about any money to tell her not to worry about it, as he would make it all right when he came home, leaving the impression on the minds of the jury that if any money had been lost it was the husband who had taken it. The jury returned a verdict that deceased committed suicide while of unsound mind.