DISTRESSING SUICIDE OF A BARMAID.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1189, 22 December 1883, Page 3

DISTRESSING SUICIDE OF A BARMAID.

/ The Deputy-Con mer for Westminister has held a as to the death of Alice Sarah AVbor, aged 21 years, a barmaid, lately residing at 4 Park-street, Limebeuse, who-|jps found drowned in the Thames. J,oLy Auber, a printer, of ■ 4 Batem«i’s Bunmngs, Soho Square, said the body was his daughter. He last saw her o’clock on Tuesday night, when ho nut her into an omnibus at the corner o\ Fetter Lane to to take her to She was rather downhearted in of being out of a situation. ' Vt as ] a st in service at a public-house at t» 0 corner of Fetter Lane: Her sister hat, found her another situation and she went *) the house to acquaint the deceased with the fact. This made the landlord very aogi V> and he discharged her there and the* merely for talking to her sister over the bar. That happened twelve months ago, and she had been unable to find employment since. P. C. Nettle, Thames Division, deposed to finding the body of the deceased shortly before five o’clock on Wednesday morning in the river. The Coroner read the letter referred to as follows :—Dear Father, —I write this, and then I am going to drown myself. I cannot bear that you and my sister should look on me with scorn, and I see no prospect before me. If I had a few pounds I would go abroad somewhere, but 1 have not got a farthing, so 1 see nothing but death. There is one I want to thank—Polly; God knows what should have done but for her ; but God will reward her and her child. My darling little godchild, God bless her and make her grow up a comfort to her mother. God bless your daughter Alice, and I hope God will forgive me.” (By “Polly” the deceased meant her sister with whom she was staying at Limehouse). Emma Auber, the mother of the deceased, stated that while her daughter was at her house on Tuesday afternoon she asked for a sheet of note paper and an envelope, and being supplied with them she wrote a letter. After hearing the medical evidence the jury returned a verdict of “Suicide whilst labouring under temporary insanity.”