ARM STUCK IN DRAWER.

Kaikoura Star, Volume LIV, Issue 37, 14 May 1934, Page 3

ARM STUCK IN DRAWER.

OLD LADY HELD CAPTIVE. Held captive for many hours with her elbow stuck in the top drawer of a chest of drawers. Helen Maria Theakston, aged 80, a single woman occupied as a music teacher, of Worcester Street, Christchurch, met her death in a strange manner. It is believed that she fainted, while opening the. drawer before retiring on Tuesday evening and that the pressure of the body closed the drawer on her arm so that she could not release herself. She was unconscious when found on Thursday afternoon and died later at the hospital. Miss Theakston lived alone. A light was burning in the room when a man employed in the garden arrived on Thursday morning. He informed the police, who broke into the house.

A special general meeting of the Suburban Hall Society will be held at the Suburban Hall on Thursday evening at 8 o ’clock.

A delightful day was spent at “Kincaid Downs,” the property of Mr E. C. Latter, yesterday, when a party of eighteen participated in a hare drive, no less than seventy hares being bagged. The party had a thoroughly enjoyable time, and at the conclusion of the drive a hearty vote of thanks was passed t-o Mr Latter for his generous treatment, in accompanying the party with a pack horse to gather the game.

At Oainaru on Saturday, Harold Logan won the invitation race, Bed Shadow being second, and WaL’a Walla third. Mr P. C. T. Ulm left Sydney on Friday night in the Faith in* Australia, and arrived in New Plymouth at 2.36 on Saturday, the trip across the Tasman occupying 14 hours 26 minutes.