Lewis, Mary Jane

A melancholy case of suicide is reported from the village of Credition, on the London, Huron and Bruce Railway, a young lady named Mary Jane Lewis, aged 22 years, having taken her own life by cutting her throat from ear to ear with a razor. It seems she was staying with her brother, Mr. William Lewis, and on retiring for the night borrowed his razor for the alleged object of removing a splint from her finger. After the family had gone to bed she appears to have escaped from the house by the bedroom window, and committed the act in the yard, where, next morning she was found lying dead, with her face upturned, and a bloody gash in her throat. The cause of her self-destruction is a mystery.