SAD SUICIDE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 478, 7 June 1890, Page 5

SAD SUICIDE.

SHOCKING AFFAIR AT WARKWORTH. Auckland, June 3. Ox Saturday last Mr Thomas Chaplin, of Warkworth,reported to Constable Haddock, of that settlement, that his granddaughter, Amy Emily Hudson, had been found dead in a back lumber-room of his residence, hanging from a tie in the roof with a rope round her neck. On being cut down the body was found to be life ! ess. Pending the arrival of Dr, Carolan an attempt was made to restore breathing by artificial means, but all efforts were in vain. When Dr. Carolan arrived he pronounced life quite extinct. A clothes horse was found lying below the spot where deceased was hanging, and this had probably been made use of to reach the noose on the rope. On a bench close by was conspicuously placed a note in deceased's handwriting addressed to her mother, Mrs Hudson, of Kaukapakapa. Deceased was a daughter of Mr Marshal Hudson, of Kaukapakapa, and at the time of her death was on a two months’visit to her grandparents, Mr and Mrs Chaplin, oi Warkworth. The contents of the note were as follows:—“My dear father and mother—l am mad. You have been kind parents to me. Life is very hard to bear. I am going to 'die. Do not blame any person. I know Jesus loves me. lam not afraid to die; I will go to Him. We will all meet in Heaven.” Deceased was a stout, healthylooking girl, very religiously inclined. She did not read much, bub what she did read was chiefly of a religious nature. She was about 18 years of age. The evidence at the inquest before Mr M. Angove, J.P., coroner, and a jury of six, went to show that on Saturday morning after breakfast of toast and hot water (the only liquid-she drank), she and her grandfather engaged in the usual family devotions. The grandmother is an invalid, and confined to her own room. Mr Chaplin left the bouse for the post office, saying he would be back in an hour. In the mean time deceased went to her grandmother’s room to see about dinner,- and soon after was heard blowing the tire. As she did not return with hot water to her grandmother, as she was expected bo do, the invalid got up and went to look for her. Not being able to find her, she told Mr Chaplin when he returned, and he found her as described above. The verdict after hearing the evidence was “ Suicide while of unsound mind.”