KILLED BY CURIOSITY
Jonn Richmond, pretty 21-year-old art student, o£ King's Bench Street, Hull, was killed by curiosity. She went to see an optician about her eyes, which had been troubling her. The optician gave her a letter to her doctor. On the way to her doctor curiosity overcame her. It contained a peculiar word which she could not understand. So she went to the local library and looked up the word in a reference book. The definition revealed to Joan that she was suffering from an eye disease that was incurable. The letter was never delivered. Instead.. Joan was later found dead, with her head on a cushion in a gas oven. She could not bear the thought of losing the power to see the glories of Nature, which, as an aspiring artist, she longed to paint. She left a letter apologising to the doctor for opening his letter. "If the letter had been posted instead of being given to the girl, she might still have. been alive," said the Coroner, returning a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind at the inquest. He appealed to doctors not to give letters to patients to be handed on.
Miss Barbara Donaldson, an Irish woman who has died at 103, milked three cows every day till a week before she died. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 138, 7 December 1935, Page 21
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