Suicide of a Young Woman - Cumberland and Westmorland Newspaper Transcriptions

Suicide of a Young Woman

SUICIDE OF A YOUNG WOMAN.
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We stated last week that a young woman, one of the unfortunates of the town,
committed suicide by throwing herself into the sea from the end of the West
Pier, Whitehaven.

The tide was on the ebb at the time and the body being taken out to sea, was
not recovered until Sunday evening, when it was washed up on the north
sands, where it was found about half past eight o’clock.

On Monday, W. LUMB, Esq., coroner, and a respectable jury, of whom Mr.
BOUSTEAD was foreman, held an inquest touching the death of the unfortunate girl
at the house of Mr. DALZELL, the Anchor Inn, Tangier Street. After hearing the
evidence, the jury returned a verdict of “Found drowned without any marks of
violence.”

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Transcribed by: Ann Selchick, 01/11/2006