Bruncrana woman shoots herself due to Sunstroke

An Inquest today heard how a Bruncrana woman, Mrs L.M. Evans Lombe, aged 43, shot herself. The Coroner recorded that this had happened when Mrs Lombe was temporarily insane from physical torture. The Inquest heard that Mrs Evans’ husband,  Colonel C. Spenser Browne Evans Lombe had served in the Leinster Regiment, and that he had been posted, with his wife, to India. There, in 1906, she had suffered sunstroke and had been invalided home, only to return in 1908 and contract tartian malaria fever which had led to a mental breakdown. Mrs Evans Lombe shot herself while her husband was at Church. Her husband stated that he had never heard her talk of suicide, and was actually of a very cheery disposition. He did acknowledge that his wife was one of the best rifle shots he had ever met.