TRAGIC SEARCH

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 371, 4 November 1932, Page 7

TRAGIC SEARCH

husband's ordeal WIFE COMMITg SUICIDE FROM SYDNEY • BRIDGE. DROPPED 180 FEET. Sydney, Sunday. A tragic search: for a hlissing wife lay behind yesterday's Harbour Bridge f atality, when Mrsv Edith. Ethel Rosalind Lee leapt 180 feet to her death. While hef husband, Fra'ncis John Lee, of General' Holmes Drive, Brigh-toh-le-Sands, searched high and low for his wife in the city, police were trying to find him to tell him of hef death. After five hours' fruitless quest, he went home, there to meet the police, and be taken back to the Morgue, whfere he identified the broken body of his wife. i | Had Been 111. j Mrs. Lee, aged 33, had been in ill- | health since her last baby was born, | seven months ago, but seemed more ■ cheerful yesterday morning, wh'en, | with her husband, and child, she set out- shoppingj, J She gave the baby to her husband ! to nurse while shq went into a buti chers's shop, came out a few minutes | later, and told Mr. Lee to wait while • she went to another shop further ' along the road. ■ She did not return, howeyer, and | the anxious husband, after giving the j baby to friends to mind, set out in search of her. I Apparently the unfortunate woman j went straight to the city, to make hef i leap from the Harbour Bridge. | Miss Mary Delaney, of 'Balmain ! was an eye-witness. "With her aunt j she was walking across the Bridge, ! when she saw the woman, who was the about 80 yards off, climh to the ledge. "I never suspected that she intended to go over. I thought she was trying to get a better view," said Miss Delaney.