GIRL SUICIDES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2462, 9 February 1893, Page 3

GIRL SUICIDES.

Girl-suicides furnish the latest sensations for the newspapers, Lust month at Melbourne a young woman aged 17 killed herself by swallowing sulphuric acid, the cause being melancholia. The strangest of girbsuicides, however, is one reported in the English papers. The one-more unfortunate, was only 14 years of age—yet the cause of her suicide was disappointment in love. She was named Edith Walker 8011, and lived at Bradford. One evening her father saw her talking to a neighbour’s boy, who is about her own a"o, and with whom she had apparently been keeping company. She came homo late, and in Typiy to a question said she ly l boon detained at work. Her. father then told her that lie had seen her, and that she was too young for that kind of thing, and must give up the boy on the following day. The mother reprimanded her for telling the untruth, which had boon fuuud uul.

While she was at work the next afternoon she mentioned the matter to a friend, and said something about going to the canal, and left her a letter addressed to her boy lover bidding him good-bye, as she was going to the canal, and advising him to keep away from her home as her father said he would give him ‘ a good hiding.’ She was not seen again after leaving her work, aud her body was found in the canal on the following Saturday afternoon. Were it not for the sad termination to the young life, theye would be something inexpressibly ludricous in the fourteen-year-old Juliet warning her Romeo to keep out of the way of the old man, lest he should get a good hiding.