Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1897-03-19 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

SUICIDE OF A YOUNG LADY. PATHETIC LETTERS.  Mr. A. Braxton Hicks held an inquest at Lambeth on Saturday on the body of Nellie Frear, aged 27, who was found in the Thames near Lambeth Bridge on Thursday morning. Miss Charlotte Godie, a lady journalist, living at Brixton, said she had known the deceased about twelve months. Witness believed she came from Newcastle. She introduoed to witness by Professor Hubert, who desired to help the girl into some -i•listion. Witness also tried to help her, and re, ommended various places for her to g 0 to. De?eas,:(l eventually went to a house in Dulwich, where she gave her services for her board and lodging. She f ver confided to witness about her connections, Sac ugh witness believed her people were very well. to-do. Some time ago she had a very serious attack brain fever. On the 10th inst. witness received the fcilowing letter from Miss }rear  Dear Migt:Godie—ilisc a few lined to say goodbye. I hope you won't feel a very great shock. I am going to that bourne from which :no traveller returns, aed, believe me, it is better, for your little Nellie is too lonely and sick. Say good-bye to Mr. Hubert for me. I would like to write to him, bit! feel it too much. If you would like to hays my photo, you may have the one framed and wrapped up in paper on the shelf. It is not like me now : but it is what I used to be before I went away. Your books are also here. Good-bye, dear friend: God bless you.—Nellie.  Mism Alice Bartreman, 10R, King's Cross Road, paid she was a fellow-worker with the deceased while she was employod at Regent Street. On Wednesday she received the following letter from her :  My dear Alice—As I am about to shuffle off this mortal coil, you may as well have what few little belongings I leave behind me. I hope you will not be very tuuch shocked when you receive this; but I will leave a space for 3Cu to recover yourself. [Here followed some dots indicating the "space."] If you like to call at my '• diggings," and take my things, you will find them handy. Just shove them into a box, and hook off with them. Smile, and say nice things if my landlady thwarts you, and if she is disagreeable just say it's none of her business. After referring to her old friends, the deceased :eancluded as follows:  And now good-bye. I liked you girls, and didn't forget your many little kindnesses. Good-bye, and God bless you.—Please excuse this scrawl ; only I feel rather serious--nervous, probably. How you will have a uine-days' talk ! Don't take away fray photo, in the frame—it's for Mies Godie.—Yours ever, Nellie. The medical evidenoe showed that deceased died from suffocation through drowning, and the jury returned a verdict of •• Sui lv while temporarily  At the Old Bailey, John Wilson, for a brutal assault on the police at Daletou, was sentenced to five years' penal servitude. The population of West Australia goes on ins :reasing. At the end of last year the number of persons *in the colony was 136.966, and the last ivarter showed at net gain of 5,914. Tito death is announced of Mr. Frank Butler (27), :on of Mr. Rii hard lintler, editor of the " Referee." He was his father's right hand, and very popular with journalists everywhere. He had written more ban one toteetee,foll pnntornitne. ',Me death has occurred at Sutton Bridge,Lincoius shire, of Violet Bond, who was born on November 19th, 1795, so that she was in her 102nd year. She belonged to Gatesend, in Norfolk, and had been in receipt of out-ofiidoor relief from the Holbeeh Board lid Guardians since her husband died, between thirty had forty years ago.  The Guardians of the Eitrood Union, Kent, have decided, by a majority of two, to hand over the unclaimed bodies of paupers who have died in the workhouse to the Cambridge School of Anatomy, for dissecting purposes. An agitation against the propoeal ía sting orgauilied,and it ib thought the motion Sll be toacinded.