GHASTLY OUTRAGE

Evening Star, Issue 20687, 9 January 1931, Page 9

GHASTLY OUTRAGE

MURDER OH MOOR GIRL'S STRUGGLE FOR HER HONOUR Pres? Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 8. Throughout the evening special police have been scouring the desolate moorland in search _of JVliss Foster s assailant. It is manifest that the girl made a stern struggle for her honour before being struck on the head. When she recovered consciousness she crawled across tho moor for three hours, licking ice to quench her thirst, and lying on an ice pond to allay the pain of the burns.

[Evelyn Foster, a pretty brunette, aged twenty-eight, the daughter of a garage proprietor, was found lying beside Tier blazing motor car on a lonely moor near Otterburn, a few miles from tho Scottish border. Before dying in her father’s arms she described in whispers how she had been murdered. She said: “On my way home a stranger requested me to give him a lift, saying that he had come from Scotland. 1 took him as far as Belsay. When ho asked mo to turn back, which I did, at Kirkwholpmgton, he stunned me with a blow on tho head and threw me back into the car, which he set on firo and pushed over a stone bank. I remember bemg jolted across the moor and crawling from the blazing car.” A bus driver saw tho blaze and found Miss Foster, terribly injured, with her clothes burned off.]