 Her friends who saw her in the days before her death described her mental state then as being more cheerful and natural than before, one likening her to "a person who has come to a decision about something".Mrs Hullett's daughter, a close friend and two servants later stated to the police that they believed that Mrs Hullett had taken her own life, the friend that had found the letters in which she had contemplated suicide calling it a "planned suicide".Leslie Henson, who anonymously contacted the police about the death, was working in Dublin around the time of Mrs Hullett's death.