SHOCKING SUICIDE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1554, 17 February 1887, Page 3

SHOCKING SUICIDE.

Here (says the Pall Mall Gazette) is an item of intelligence whioh stand* out with painful distinctness, It possesses no public interest, for it only oonoerna a very poor young woman who committed suicide in the north of London, but nothing in the papers succeeds it in tragic horror, and therefore in universal and general interest. The poor creature, who at the age of twenty-nine found herself in a decline and tortured by rheumatic fever, had often prayed to be re’ieved of her misery, but had prayed in vain. What followed was told as follows before the coroner “On Tuesday she bade her husband an affectionate good-bye on bis leaving for work, and shortly after he had gone looked her children in their room at the top of the house, having told them she was going to die. The eldest boy, aged about six, looked through the keyhole, and observed his mother adjusting a rope round her neck, having tied the rope to a trapdoor in the room. In an agony of fear he seised a chopper, end endeavored to break the lock, but bis strength was not equal to it, and he saw bis mother throw herself from a stool and dangle from the trapdoor, The noise of his chapping brought someone up, but the woman was dead;” Poor little fellow, and only six year* old! What a grim and awful picture ia that of the child straining his little arms—and straining them in vafn — to chop through the door behind which his mother was slowly strangling to death !