SUICIDE AT SYDENHAM.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2120, 4 November 1890, Page 3

SUICIDE AT SYDENHAM.

On Friday night, Mrs Seabourn) the wife of John Seabourn, a baker, residing in Lord Brougham street M Sydenham, commit ted suicide by drowning in the Heathcote. Her husband last saw her about seven o'clock in the evening, when she visited him in the bakehouse, apparently being in the best of spirits. About a couple of hours afterwards he missed her, and on going into the bedroom to see if she was there found the following note : " Jack—By the time you get this I will be no more. I make a hole in the water, —Yours, E. Seabourn." Mr Seabourn lost no time in giving information to the police, a party of whom, together with a large number of neighbours, were out searching all uighfc. .No trace of the missing woman was found till Saturday morning, when a man named John Simpson, who was fishing for whitebait in the Heathcote at Opawa, noticed some object in the middle ®f the river, which, on getting nearer to it, he fouad to be the body of a woman lying face downwards in the water. With the assistance of a man named Bray he got the body out of the water, and sent word to the police, who had it conveyed to Mr Seabourn's houae. IVira Seabourawas twenty-nine years of age, and leaves a family of seven. An inquest was held on Saturday afternoou before Mr R. Beetham and a jury, of whom Mr H. Hodgson was foreman. The evidence of Mr Seabourn, husband of the deceased, Eliza Jane, a daughter, and Eliza JaDe Pollock was taken, ahowiDg that the deceased had, in addition to attending to her household dutieg, kept the store and her husband's books; that she had been much depressed occasionally, and had frequently complained of pains in her head. The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide while in a state of temporary insanity, brought on by overwork." —Lytteltou Times.