A TRAGIC AFFAIR.
WOMAN HANGS HERSELF.
(By Telegraph. — Preu Auociation.l AUCKLAND,. Last Night.. A woman named Mary Winchester •Hall, who killed her child at Warkworth recently, andi who was. directed by the., Judge at the Supreme Ootiri during *ihe week to be detained in a mental hospital during the pleasure of the Minister of Justice, hanged hejrself at the institution yesterday .with a sheet. At the inquest, the jury found that the woman hanged m herself, and added that it was art er~ ror of judgment in permitting her to> have sheets. It was stated by theSuperintendent of the hospital that, the woman could not be properly looked after, owing to the overcrowding. [lt will*be remembered that the unhappy woman took three of her children into a stable to play ait hanging. She put ropes to their necks and fastened them to a rafter. The eldest girl had her neck but the others were cut down.]
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 25 August 1913, Page 4
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156A TRAGIC AFFAIR. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 25 August 1913, Page 4
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