SYDNEY WOMAN

Grey River Argus, 21 August 1934, Page 5

SYDNEY WOMAN

Locked in Hordern’s TRAGEDY RESULTS. (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received August 20 at 10 pm.) SYDNEY, August 20. Mrs Stella Ha.rison, aged 35. the wife of the manager of a city hotc-, met a tragic death at the week-end. -'he having been accidentally locked in Anthony Hordern’s department store in Sydney on Saturday after buying a hat. Her body was found to-day in the basement. with the skull ami neck fractured. The woman apparently had fallen down a staircase in the darkness whe n trying to find some method of at t ratting attention. There were many evidences of her frantic futile efforts bo prize open fireproof doors in the huge building, in which event, she -would have caused the fire alarm to ring. She aDo threw a small step-’adder through a window, without avail. Her husband, to whom she was married only last year, reported her missing on Saturday afternoon.