TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN AUCKLAND.
YOUNG WOMAN COMMITS SUICIDE. Press Association. AUCKLAND. Jan. 21. At Mount Albert this afternoon, a terrible tragedy was enacted, when a young married woman named Mrs. Sheets, aged 26, took 'her life by cutting her throat with a razor. It appoars 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 surroundings 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 dressing-table. Alter reading a little she replaced the book, but in doing so the sight of tho 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 fearful wound, completely severing her windpipe, there being a gash from ear to ear. Dr. Jones was sent for, but could onlv pronounce life extinct.
Deceased came from To Puke, where her husband owned a station.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2095, 22 January 1908, Page 2
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209TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN AUCKLAND. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2095, 22 January 1908, Page 2
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