TWO LETTERS
LIFE SAVED, ONE LOST. TRAGIC STORIES. t, ' % How one letter saved a life, and another resulted in a death was disclosed at two contemporaneous inquests in England. t ' -*•' George Ellis, a Battersea painter, wrote to his nephew, saying that He intended to commit suicide. The nephew .rushed to the house and found his uncle seated in the armchair with a gas tube in his mouth. Ellis was hurried to hospital where he died of cancer in the throat. A verdict of death ' from natural causes was returned, the Coroner remarking that the nephew had temporarily saved his uncle’s life. In the second case, Maggie Falconer, a clerical worker in the Church of Latter Day. Saints at Liverpool, found a letter written by another girl, saying that the entire branch disliked Miss Falconer. The writer .afterwards apologised, but Miss Falconer showed the letter to her fnother, who poisoned herself. The Coroner remarked that this tragedy, was due to the reading of other people’s letters.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 112, 11 April 1929, Page 5
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165TWO LETTERS Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 112, 11 April 1929, Page 5
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