SUICIDE OF A WOMAN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4526, 18 September 1893, Page 2

SUICIDE OF A WOMAN.

Hung in Hei Own Home,

About 5 o'clock on Saturday aftor« • ;' noon Mrs Ellen Brooker committed suicide at her residenoe in Hansen street. Mrs Brooker, who 25 years of ofje, had weeks suffering from uQi^^^^ftt' There had been aome tween. herself and her husband's family, and the matter seemed to have preyed upon her mind. At about 3 o'clock on Saturday afternoon her husband, who is a letter carrier • asked her if she would go out for a walk with him and her little son, aged about four yejfl.' She replied that.she was not;|lKig very welljand wouldJio down while they were out, On returning about 6 o'olook the husband found a letter in the kitchen, and after reading it immediately' searched for his wife, whom he found hanging from one of the beams below the house, Ha cut the body down, and his cries attracted the attention of Mrs Leathern aud Mr Peter Johnston, nieghbours, who at onceoame to his : assistance. They sent for Dr Alex, ander, of Revaus street, tho nearest physician, Dr Alexander came, and was shortly afterwards joined by Dr Ewart, from tho hospital, who had been telephoned for. After exam» - ioation of the corpse in the prosenoo - of Constable Carrol, the dootora agreed that death, had been caused by strangulation, the result of intentional suicide, Deceased had been". ailing for some time, and being of a very sensitive nature had worried hor* self into a melaucholy state. The letter left was of: a purely personal nature, and closed with a jjgjjuest , that her child might be gi% in charge of a friend of hers, Theleltef--1 was n most pathetio one, but of -too ; personal a clmiaoter for publication. ' Tho bereaved husband and child have temporarily gone to stay with I Mr Harris, a personal friend, An ' inquest will be held to-day at 12 . o'clock in the Tramway Hotel, Adelaide road.—N.Z. Times.