A melancholy hut determined suicide by a young woman, named Elizabeth Petherick, aged 28, and living in Little Collins-street, occurred early yesterday morning. The inmates of the house she was living in were startled at about seven o'clock in tbe morning by the report of a pistol shot, and on hastening to the room found, the unfortunate woman bleeding from the head with a revolver in her hand. The bullet had entered the head and rendered her insensible. She was removed instantly to tho hospital, where she was admitted, but died a few hours afterwards. The deceased was married to a man twice her ago, and the rash deed is attributed to domestic troubles or jealousy.
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