GIPSY PRINCE’S DEATH.
SILVER-LINED COFFIN. SYDNEY, November 0. For three days a gipsy tribe in Sydney have been in mourning for their 30-year-old dead prince, Costa Sterio. In a small bare room in a Wooloomooloo tenement his ' embalmed body has reposed in a £2OO gold-ornamented and silver-lined coffin. Dressed in long black frocks, and sitting on bare floorboards opposite the coffin, Sterio’s mother and his 25-year-old widow, Elizabeth Sterio, have smoked their pipes steadily and stared silently at the coffin, ignoring the shrieks of small boys fighting outside the window. A diamond ring, valued at £450, money, and personal belongings will be buried with the prince, whose funeral will take place when the vault is completed in about 10 days.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 64, Issue 34, 19 November 1943, Page 3
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