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"Mabel Bell, Young Immigrant, Ends Life With Revolver,"
The Daily Telegraph, January 31, 1906.
Even after legislation and new divisions were created in the late 1890s to protect
juvenile immigrants from child abuse, another form of tragedy, though very infrequent,
was covered in the press. In 1906, 15-year-old Mabel Bell, who worked as a servant,
committed suicide in her master's kitchen, using his revolver. After three
more children committed suicide in the winter of 1923-1924, a British parliamentary
delegation traveled to Canada to investigate. As a result, it was decided that
only children of working age could emigrate to Canada.
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