ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4403, 10 August 1893, Page 3

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

Auckland, Augus" 0. Ediib Maj-Gcrge, 17 yeara of age, employed as a nurse girl liy Mr Walter Lewie, bwcher, dissolved 81 I match heads in a teaspoonful of milk and drank the same to-day. Upon being questioned, iho unhappy young girl confessed that she had attempted to poison himself, and gave as her reason for doing 80 that she was not good enough to live, There is every reason to believe that the girl is suffering from religious mauia. She was in the habit of attending the Helping Hand Mission and the Salvation Army sorvicea, and of late she has expressed great concern as to her eternal Balvatiou. Lost ni»ht, upon returning home to liar tn'ot'ier'a residence, in rJobsan sticot (her mother Btntes), Bhe infused to go to bed, but sal reading her Bible and saying her prayers. Although repeatedly urged to tJpsist sue still continued, flopping v.p until late in the niidnight, At the time the girl committed suicide in Oneluinga by eating matches, Miss George said that that was what she would do also if people were to talk about her. She was sent to the hospital, and is in a precarious condition