Dorothy Mushet
Toronto Daily Star, January 27 1930
According to the Canadian Encyclopedia, suicide was decriminalized in Canada in 1972. Before that, anyone who attempted suicide could be arrested, as the unfortunate Ms. Mushet was.
Ms. Mushet is listed at 264 Garden Avenue, along with her sister and widowed mother, in the 1931 Toronto city directory. None of the family appear in any other directory after that, as far as I know. There is no W. E. Smith listed at Harvard Avenue in any of the 1929, 1930, and 1931 directories; there are other Smiths on the street, but it's a very common name.
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