SECRET DIES

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 142, 12 December 1935, Page 17

SECRET DIES

Mrs. Alice Lumb, of Summergate Street, Halifax, whose body was found in the Rochdale Canal at Sowerby Bridge floating near Bank of England and Treasury notes worth more than £700, carried her secret to the grave. , At the inquest the jury returned a verdict of "death from drowning, without sufficient evidence to show how she got into the water." The jury added a rider that they did not consider there had been foul play. Her husband, Mr. Ernest Lumb, of Cottonstones, near Sowerby Bridge, spoke of her longing for loneliness and of her passion for money. Mr. Lumb said: ''She was an extraordinary woman in many ways. She always wanted to be alone; cut off from her friends and the world. She would have lived the life of a hermit but for passion for money. That compelled her to go out to work as a weaver so that she might earn and save more money. I pa id her a separation allowance. We were married in 1920 but she was not happy on the farm. She left me in 1923."

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