'A. most distressing incident occurred last week, when two fisher ten discovered the unconscious form fof a foreign lady floating beneath fan overhanging rock at Zushi, a seaside resort about 15 miles from.
johama. First aid, in the best manner the fishermen could, rendered and later everything posible was done, but died about four hours after she had been found.
Inquiries have proved that she! was Miss Phyllis C, Gibson, a young English Indy who came out to J: pan as governess to the two chi dren of Mr. and Mrs, Ishii, the for mer being the proprietor of a cat in Tokyo.
About four months axe, she left her Japanese employers and engaged as governess by Mrs. Elton, whose husband is the manag-or of the Yokohama office of Messrs.
reline, Matheson & Ca. While at the home of the Eltons, Miss Gibson. was treated as a member of the family, but she gloomy and taciturn, as though] brooding on some wrong done te her, On the day of her death, she packed her things and said she Wanted to leave. The Eltons did everything possible to induce her to was determined to go short of physical force would have stopped hei It is be-Tieved she went to the sea-side resort with her mind already made' up as regards suicide, and then' threw herself from the top of the cliffs there. Miss Gibson, who was only 25, has a brother in London and sister in America.
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