Wife Dies After Head Over Heels Mishap
While she was doing “head over heels” on a mattress a needle entered the leg of Mrs. Margaret Scott Malcolm (21), a former hospital nurse, living at Holland Road, Kensington (London). The needle was removed, but she died from septicaemia. A verdict of “accidental death” was recorded at the inquest.
The husband, Frederick Scott Malcolm, said that his wife’s favourite pastime was to do physical jerks in front of the fire. On the evening of January 2 she got into her pyjamas and did “head over heels on a mattress. “I said to her ‘Can you do it backwards?’” said Mr. Malcolm, “and she did.” It was then that a needle on the floor entered her leg.”
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Northern Advocate, 27 May 1941, Page 9
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