A SAD AFFAIR.
SUICIDE OF A 15-YEAR-OLD GIRL.
BY TELEGRAPH -PRESS ASSOCIATION. DUNEDIN, January 9. Early this morning, Catherine M. Mead, 15 years of age, shot herself through the breast at her parents' residence at St. Kilda. It appears" that deceased's mother rebuked.her at 9.30 last evening for being out late. This morning ,her mother found her at. sitting, half dressed, on her bed. 4 little while after the mother heard a shot, and rushing .in found her daughter had collapsed on the floor, with a loaded six-chambered revolver beside her. One chamber had been discharged. She was quite dead. >
THE FATHER'S EXPLANATION. DUNEDIN, January 9. The deceased's father is an artilleryman. He has been working at the Heads latterly, and states that the women in the house were : suffering from the burglar scare, and had been in the habit of having his revolver close at hand. He thinks that his daughter was tinkering with the weapon when it exploded.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9024, 10 January 1908, Page 5
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160A SAD AFFAIR. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9024, 10 January 1908, Page 5
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