Strange and Bizarre Stories from Newcastle - The Strangled Body in the Swamp

I have been asked by a follower if I could keep you all entertained by posting some strange stories -
What better way to share my years of research with you into the bizarre and noir tales of Newcastle!!
They will be short and weird stories of murder, mayhem and madness from Newcastle's past.
Here is story Number 1.

NURSE'S SUICIDE BY
STRANGULATION - June 02 1938
Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954)
Strange Newcastle Case

A report that the strangled body of a woman had been found in a swamp at Hexham (N.S.W.), eight miles up the Hunter River, seemed to confront the Newcastle police with a mystery in all ways parallel with that of the murder of Dorothy May
Everett in the grounds of Broughton School Newcastle, last December.
As in the Everett case, a stocking belonging to the woman had been tightly tied around her neck.

Investigations succeeded, however,in definitely establishing a theory of suicide. The stocking was doubled round the neck of the woman, who was subsequently identified as Miss
Mabel Wilson, a nurse, of Lorn West Maitland, and secured by a hitch knot.
The police believe that it would have been quite possible for a determined woman to have tied such a knot.
The nature of the knot, they further state, was such that once the woman had tied it, it, would have exercised asphyxiating pressure. At the same time the woman would have
found it impossible to undo it, if she had repented of her original suicidal resolution before lapsing into an unconscious preceding death.

In a handbag left with a shoe at a point outside the swamp in which the body was found, there was a note reading: —
'Tired and worn out.
Goodbye to all.
Love to Joan.
Mabel.'

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