Distressing Case of Suicide
Mns Elizabeth May, aged 57, living with her husband at Clifton Hill, Melbourne, committed suicide on Sunday, the 14th. Her husband, who is living on his means, left at half past 9 for Sunday school, and on returning at 1 o’clock he found his wile lying face downwards in the bath. The shower waa running, but the plug of tho bath waa only partially in, The bath was half full of blood stained water. The woman had out the scalp to the bone in several places with a tableknife, and her left arm was gashed across to the bone, She bed out the calves of both legs to the bone, and had also inflicted other wounds. Blood stains showed that she commenced the work of self deetruotion In the
diiiios room, and had then gone to thg bath. She had been ivies marrUl, Hsr first husband left bar monvy> whirit aha badly spsotilated in land, and she had beau rather mtijnohoiy for ia sen j
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 331, 30 July 1889, Page 2
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169Distressing Case of Suicide Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 331, 30 July 1889, Page 2
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