A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
YOUNG WOMAN COMMITS SUICIDE. - BY TETiKGRAPU -HI ESS ASSOCIATION'. AUCKLAND, January 21. At Mount Albert, this afternoon, a terrible tragedy was enacted, wl en a young married woman, named M-.'s Skeates, aged 26, took her life by cutting her throat with a razor. It appears that the victim and her husband, a man of independent means, had only resided at Mount Albert- for about six months. They lived in a big house amidst beautiful purroundings near the railway station. For some days past the deceased had been in bad health, and 'this afternoon was lying on her bed, a lady friend being present trying to sooth her. About a quarter past three o'clock she got up from the bed and reached a prayer-book from the dress-ing-table.* After reading a little she replaced the book, but doing so the sight of the razor evidently appealed to her shattered nerves as an easy way out of her misery, and before her friend could do anything to interfere she had seized the razor and inflicted a fearful wound, completely severing her windpipe, there, being a gash from ear to ear. Dr. Jones was sent for, but could only pronounce life extinct.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9034, 22 January 1908, Page 5
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201A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9034, 22 January 1908, Page 5
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