GIRL FOUND DEAD IN SEASIDE BACH
Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. An inquest into the death of Miss Emily Martha Forward, aged 21, who was found dead in a bach at North Beach, New Brighton, yesterday, was opened to-day. Mrs Irene Passmore, married, gave evidence of having visited the bach and found the body which she identified. She knew deceased who had lived at the bach for some time. She last saw her about three months ago. The Coroner: Do you know why she vmnt there? Witness: Yes. She couldn’t keep her position because she was expecting to become a mother and had not been too well.
The inquest was adjourned sine die. The bach was rented for a period of twelve months early in the year by William Burgess, a taxi-driver, who paid rent regularly up till about the middle of May. The police had a long interview with Burgess yesterday. The body of the woman was found in a sitting position in a chair with a gas tube beside her head and the gas turned on from the stove alongside her. As the gas meter wag of the shilling ■in-tho-slot variety the escape of gas had ceased and the presence of gas (as it might otherwise have been) was mot detected.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6630, 8 June 1928, Page 8
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214GIRL FOUND DEAD IN SEASIDE BACH Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6630, 8 June 1928, Page 8
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