DANCED TO DEATH.
A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. B’J CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, April 17. The tragedy of a dance-mad wife war. unfolded at the inquest on Mrs. Enid Woodman, aged 25, who was found poisoned in a fashionable West End hotel. The evidence disclosed that Mrs. Woodman was separated from her husband and threatened to commit suicide unless she_ was taken hack. Her husband declined to do this because she persisted in going out dancing night after night, generally with one man. Her husband allowed her £IOOO a year. ■The coroner, in returning a verdict of suicide, said that deceased, like many people nowadays, treated dancing not. merely as an occasional amusement, hut as the serious business of life. He read a letter .addressed to the coroner in which deceased wrote : “The last thing I wanted to do was to take my life, as T love life, but my husband forced me. The coroner added that the husband was not blameworthy.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 21 April 1925, Page 5
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