WOMAN KILLED BY BEES
FLEW UNDER HER VEIL.
LONDON July 22. Bees which flew under her protective veil killed Mrs Janet Bulger. 39;' wife of a Nigerian Civil servant, at Wetherhill Farm. Icklingham, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Airs. Bulger, who was in England for health reasons, was the guest of Major 'l'. C. Lucas, a retired Army surgeon, at the farm. Alajor Lucgs said at the inquest last night that Mrs. Bulger, wearing protective clothing, was. putting new sections in the hives. “The bees seemed very angry at being disturbed, and I begged her not to go on with it. When I helped to take liei- veil off in th& kitchen' -a whole cloud of bees came. out. Mrs. Bulger went, upstairs and at the top." Dr. O'Aleara, of Bury St. Edmunds,; said that, death was due to failure, following -a sting on the necicThe deputy coroner, Air. H. R. Wairond, returned a verdict in ance with the medical evidence,
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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 September 1938, Page 5
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