THE DUNDEE COURIER & ARGUS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1872
DUNFERMLINE
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE
On Tuesday afternoon, Louisa Balfour or Reid, aged 43, wife of John Reid, weaver, Cairneyhill, cut her throat with a razor in the weaver’s shop.
Mrs Reid has been labouring under mental aberration for some weeks past, and has been closely watched in case of doing herself any injury. Her husband had only been out for about five minutes when she committed the act.
A young girl, thirteen years of age, saw her bleeding at the throat, and gave the alarm.
Dr Morris was called in, and sewed up the wound. He gave it as his opinion that the windpipe was slightly cut.
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