“TIRED OF LIFE”

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20282, 26 August 1937, Page 13

“TIRED OF LIFE”

CAMBRIDGE WOMAN'S END. DRANK POISON IN HOTEL. (Special to Time.*.) CAMBRIDGE, Wednesday. ' A verdict that Una Maud Millard (28), y single, second rook at the Masonic Hotel, committed suicide by taking poison while In a stale of unsound mind, was return- “ ed by Mr F. W. Tlatts. coroner, at the r I Cambridge Court this morning. r The deceased died at the hotel on Mon- . dav arter drinking poison. Dr. Neil Matson said as the result or a telephone message from the Masonic p Hotel he arrived there about 8.15 p.m. He saw a woman who was unconscious Iving on a bed. very cyanosed and almost q lireless. He gave the' woman every pos- £ sible attention but, despite his best efforts she died at about, 9.25 p.m. From the ’ time or llr>t allending the woman she 1 gradually got worse. He round her condition consistent, with having swallowed a poison. He was shown a bottle with about two ounces or poison In It. Death was due to paralysis or the cardiac and ; respiratory centres, the primary cause be--1 ing heart failure and shock. Chemist's Evidence. Herbert Goffe Foster, chemist, said a 1 woman called ai his shop and asked Tor s a retain mild which was a poison, which v he supplied, labelling It “Poison.” The v bottle produced was the one lie sold. .. The woman was quite calm in her de- 11 : Gladys Dunn, an employee oT the v Masonic Hotel, said deceased was etn- . ployed there as second cook. Deceased 1 never spoke or having any trouble or J worry. she went to Hamilton oti the f, morning or the 23rd and witness saw deceased when she returned. She ap- * dirty*' at s 'p.m' ami went to her room. When she opened the door Miss Millard . was standing lacing her and had a drink- 11 ;■ l.i - ~ In ;- I:;•' and u - £ wastnig' It."'and will! that -In-’ threw her e arms over witness' sliotilders and said: v dlateVv inloi inei/ Mrs Wilson. I; P “ Sorry For Doing It" (Iran- nine Wilson. u;,e o|’ the Masonic , ll.del licensee, tin* deeeased_ entered j w'orr'v’ \v11;I.• m wilne--’ \|,.»iit e s p.m. on tile 2 3rd. m Response to an 7 1 i.vea-ed was then In a very distressed ' condition. She said: ”1 am sorry tor doing this m .sour home. Mrs Wilson, but <\ l am tired of life." I he doctor was Ini- .■ mediately railed. .When witness returned rived she collapsed and died. * Kenneth Bin-hall. Wiidd, 'he knew had was an aunt In Wellington. Witn." J m-d.. w lien !.. and ii > plating suicide. rile i»ol.ce produced a note amt staled 1 that two letter.-, had been t omul i The coroner returned a verdict as .. stated