AMAZING SCENES
AT MURDERED GIRL’S FUNERAL CROWD KEPT BACK BY POLICE London, October 12. There were amazing scenes, the crowds totalling 25,000, at the funeral of the murdered typist, Constance Oliver, beginning outside her home at Battersea. Foot and mounted police had to keep back the huge crowd, in which hundreds were unrestrainedly weeping at the sight of the parents assisted into the mourning coach. The hearse was covered with masses of flowers, especially symbolical broken lilies, sent from all over London, lhe crowds lined the roads for two miles to the Morden Cemetery, v'ere there was an extraordinary rush to the chapel doors. The police kept back screaming and weeping women, dozens losing their hats in’ the crush. There were more crowds at the cemetery, where the unusual spectacle was seen of a roped-off grave. When the coffin was lowered the father collapsed, and would have fallen into the grave but for friends who caught him and assisted him from the graveside.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 17, 14 October 1927, Page 11
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