Suicide of a Domestic Servant. DASTARDLY CONDUCT OF A YOUNG MAN.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 216, 20 August 1887, Page 2

Suicide of a Domestic Servant. DASTARDLY CONDUCT OF A YOUNG MAN.

A young woman named Isabella Thoirpson, a domestic servant- in the employ ot Mr A. A. Turner, F.JNI., died fioin the effects of a quantity of powder known as " .Rough on Rat?," and at an inquest touching the death, Mias Turner and a young woman named Elizabeth Shannon, a, fellow-servant of deceased, deposed that deceased was in her ut>ual .spirits up to Saturday night, w hen she went out for tome tune, but upon her return home she was very depressed in sph it*. In reply to a question a? to the cause, she said she had fallen our. with her young man, anil belies td he would never make it up again. Edw in Shaw, the young man lefeued toby deceased, gave evidence to the effect that lie wn.s engaged to be mairied to her, and that lie met her on Satuiday evening, when he told her that he had heard something to the effect that she was not a virtuous girl before ho became acquainted with her, and that she would have to be freed from that suspicion, otherwise they would have to part. In cross-examination, he admit ted that he had reduced her on Thursday night last ; but denied that he had raised the question of her urtue in order to give him a plea for deserting her. ITe said deceased wis a member of the Salvation Aimy, and he was a member of the Christian Brethren. Witness was cross-examined at length by the jury as to his relations with deceased, and at the conclusion of his examination they said his conduct towards her was most repiehensible, and that it was a. pity the law could not reach him in connection with her untimely end, a* he was in a gieat measure responsible for her committing the ra-h act, it being quite evident to them that he hail seduced her and (hen accused her ot provious immorality ab a plea to get rid of her.