FOUL CRIME.
GIRL MOTORIST MURDERED iBY STRANGER WHO WAS GIVEN A LIFT. CAR SET ON FIRE. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Dav, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 7. Evelyn Foster, a pretty brunette, aged 28, daughter of a garage proprietor, was found lying beside her blazing motor car on a lonely moor near Otterburn, a few miles from the Scottish border, late last night. Before dying in her father's arms, she described in whispers how she had been murdered. She said, “On the way home, a stranger requested me to give him a lift, saying he had come from Scotland. I took him as far as Belsam, when he asked me to turn back, which I did. At Kirkwhelpington he stunned me with a blow on the head and threw me back into the car, which he set on fire and pushed over a stone bank. I remember being jolted across the moor and crawling from the blazing car.”
A bus driver saw the blaze and found Miss Foster terribly injured, with her clothes burned off.'
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 January 1931, Page 5
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