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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 328, 23 July 1889, Page 4

Albury, July 9.—A girl named Leady, 18 years of age, residing with her father, Bichard Leady, a farmer in comfortable circumstances, was found drowned in a dam close to her father's residence, a few miles from Howlong, yesterday. It appears that the girl yesterday partook of dinner and seemed to be in her usual health and spirits. Afterwards the family, with the exception of deceased and a sister nine years of age, went for a walk through the paddocks. As soon as they had left home the younger girl noticed her sister writing something on a leaf of a copybook, but did not suspect anything was wrong. The deceased then left the house, ostensibly for the purpose of joining the remainder of the family, but she was Hit again seen alive, and on looking about the father found a piece ot paper in her bedroom on which was written a message to the effect that her body would be found in the dam, and that she bad determined to end her existence. On the dam being searched the body was found, and as it had been in the water fully an hour life was quite extinct. No reason is assigned for the act, as the girl appeared in the best of spirits, although some time since she received a fall from a horse, which it is now thought affected her brain.

Newcastle, July 9. This afternoon Senior-constable Hickey arrested a sinker named John Mann on a charge of abduction. It It appears that accused had been engaged in company with another miner, Peter Johnson, in sinking a shaft a Hexham, and on Sunday both men succeeded in inducing two sisters under 21 years of age, named Louisa and Annie Scooting, to elope with them. 1 heir father with whom accused and Johnson were boarding, at once issued warrants for their arrest. It bas since transpired that the accused and their girl Louisa were married yesterday. Johnson has not yet been apprehended.