ROMANTIC SUICIDE OF A YOUNG WOMAN.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1266, 18 November 1884, Page 3

ROMANTIC SUICIDE OF A YOUNG WOMAN.

Mr J..mtfs Hiff hell "an inquirv at the Hanover Inn, High Bead), Essex, on th 3 hotly of Jiuie Margaret Uibbing*, aged 19 years, who committed suicide under very romantic circumstance?. Mrs Mary Ann Gibbings, a widow, living at Nile cottage, High Beach road, said her daughter had been in service as a housemaid, hut latterly had been staying with witness tfhfc had been keeping company with a joung- man, an'', in consequence of a quarn 1 with him, bad exhibited a strangeness in her maimer. A short time ago her dead body was found in a water-tank attached to the premises. In her dress pocket was found the following letter : "Tuesday night. My dear mother, — When you hear of my distressing end you will, I know, break your heart. When I got into bed, an 1 had not been there more thau half an hour, the devil paid me a visit. He stood talking to me for some time, and told me that he had seen Charley—my young man—with another woman. 1 suid to myself, now what can Ido ? To think he who loved me so much should leave me for another! All of a sudden 1 thought ef the water-tank, and the more I tried to keep away from it the more the devil tried to gjt me into the water. H* said to me at last, ' If you jump in I will get Charley to bring you out,' My head is raving, and I feel on fire. I cannot say anything more, I have lift my photograph in my box. Give it to Charley, an- 4 tell him if it had not been for him I should not have killed myself. I, however, did it for the best. Now, mother dear, what was the good of my living 1 I was miserable, and coqld not be happy without Charley, bye, mother. Give mv kind love to a || f Your loving daughter, Jane Margaret Gibbings."--The jury rer turned a verdict of *' Suicide whilst in a state of unsound mind."