GIRL’S TRAGIC ACT.
DROWNS HERSELF AND HER
CAPTOR.
(Received 29, 9.30 a.m.) London, Mar. 28. A girl arrested for stealing at Matlock, in Derbyshire, jumped into the river. The policeman followed. The girl gripped him and refused to release her hold, and both were drowned. A second policeman dived repeatedly into fifteen feet of water, but could not succeed in rescuing them.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 90, 29 March 1911, Page 1
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62GIRL’S TRAGIC ACT. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 90, 29 March 1911, Page 1
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