DANCE TO DEATH.
remarkable farewell message
The story of how a girl attended a dance and then apparently went straight to the river and drowned herself was told at (rarstang, when a verdict of Suicide, with no evidence to show the state of her mind at the time," was returned at the inquest on Mary Orarsby (17), of Me • Cockerham famer, said the girl was to have been married on Faster Monday, and gave him a months Sice but the engagement was broken Sf and she asked to be kept at the farm. Edward Foster; of Cocker ha:m, s;ai<d he had been engaged to the engagement was broken off by mutual Sen? and she did not seem distressed saw-her on the Sunday before her death and they were talking for about an hour outside his home, chiefly about dancing She danced some of her steps in the the tattg oJ tie body in the River Wyre, the girl s hat and coat being on the bank. Inside the hat was a note to her parents, saying. I have gone now; I don't kno* what I have 5 % for I eive my- lasting love to my Sng mother and dad, and my sweetheart Ted Foster. Don't trouble over me. Look after Ted." \
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 164, 13 July 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)
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211DANCE TO DEATH. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 164, 13 July 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)
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