The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954) Monday 25 March 1872 p 3Article
A DETERMINED SUICIDE.
A respectable young girl named Louisa Morgan,
aged between eighteen and nineteen years, who
has lived in the family of Mr. Robert Jones of
Sturt- street for the last eight years, committed
suicide this morning. For some few weeks past
Miss Morgan has shown signs of dejection. On
Thursday evening last she dressed her
self in very light clothes and left the house,
without saying where she intended to go,
and nothing was heard of her until last night,
shortly before dark, when she went to the house
of Mr. Jones's father, on Soldier's-hill, and said
she had spent the intervening time in wandering
about paddocks on the Creswick-road, and said it
seemed as though she had been asleep all the
time. In the morning she had a hearty breakfast,
and returned to the house of Mr. Robert Jones,
where she appeared to be in her usual health.
Shortly after mid-day she was missed, and upon
being searched for, was found weltering in her
blood, which was still flowing from gashes in her
throat, evidently inflicted by herself, as two
carving-knives were found in such a position as
to show that she had very deliberately premedi
tated the act. The sufferer was taken to the hos
pital, and died about an hour after her admis-
sion. - Ballarat Post, 23rd March.