Delivering his verdict, the Coroner said that there was no doubt that Biss Thompson drank the Lysol Girectly from the bottle, and from the quantity. swallowed it seemed conclusive she had taken the fatal dose within half an hour of her death, or just afler 7.30 am. He had been, trying to find some evidence to show the state of her mind. The mother had suggested that her daughter was worried about Mr. Keep's leaving. The sister's evidence showed—that 'Sfiss Thompson was quite happy the' evening before, and talked about burly she was going to with Mr. Keep on the following Saturday. This tallied with the evidence of Mr. Keep to the effect that although they had had one or two differences and quarrels she left his room in a very happy frame of mind.
There was no evidence to show that she was brooding over the impossibility of being married within 2 reasonable time. He felt that in these eases of suicide one had to have some evidence of the slate of the mind of the deceased "before coming o a definite conclusion on that point, The most they could say. was that some time during the night she dudded to take her own lite. They could only assume that she might have come to the conclusion that she could not wait indefinite-get what she wanted, to marry.
His finding, therefore. was that Miss May Caroline Thompson_ committed sulelde on March 11, 1037, at Shang-hal, by taking Lysol, There was me suflelent evidence before him to determine the state of her mind at the time.
The Court rose, and Mr. Haines left the room, only to return a moment Tater, and say that in view of rumours which had reached him he felt it his duty to point out that he was satiated from the medical evidence before him that there _was thing wrong with Miss Thompson.
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