ARM STUCK IN DRAWER
»—* • OLD LADY HELD CAPTIVE DEATH IN HOSPITAL
(By Telegraph—J'res«-- Association.)
CHEISTCHUBCH,' This Day.
Held captive for many hours with her elbow stuck in the top drawer of a chest of drawers, H«lon-Maria Theakston, aged 80, a single • woman occupied as a music teacher, iof Worcester Street, met her death in a strange manner. It is belicvecl that she fainted while opening the. .drawer before retiring on Tuesday evening and that the pressure of the body closed the drawer on her arm so that she could not release herself. She -was unconscious when found yesterday; afternoon, and died in hospital at; 7 o'clock this morning- . ■ .
Miss Tlieakston lived alone. A light was burning in the room when a man employed in the garden arrived yesterday morning. He 'informed the police who broke into the house. '
An inquest will be ifeld,
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 109, 10 May 1934, Page 12
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143ARM STUCK IN DRAWER Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 109, 10 May 1934, Page 12
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