DOUBLE TRAGEDY
LOST SENSE OF SMELL In ;i house lit Mortlake, .Surrey, police found tilo two occupants, Miss Klizaheth Helen Xicoll, aged 81, and lior sister. Miss Louisa Isabella Xicoll, 75, lying dead from coal gas poisoning, (las was escaping from tire kitchen stove. This was stated at the inquest at Richmond, when a verdict of “ death hy misadventure ” was returned. A neighbour, Mrs Phyllis Thompson, told the coroner that she often did shopping for the sisters, as they disliked anyone else in the house. Twice when she visited the house gas had escaped from the kitchen cooker, and neither sister was aware of it. A pathologist stated that it was not unknown for old people to lose the sense of smell entirely.
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Evening Star, Issue 23817, 22 February 1941, Page 19
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123DOUBLE TRAGEDY Evening Star, Issue 23817, 22 February 1941, Page 19
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