GRIM SECRET OF CHEST.
GIRL'S SKELETON FOUND. LONDON, Jan. 31
Recollections of the poem Ginevra, by Samuel Rogers, are raised by the chscovery of a girl's skeleton within an enciont chest which was purchased Ly one Yasari, an antique dealer, in Portman Square, from a furniture depot at Slk| herd's Bush. The vendor said it Lad been knocking about for months. Tho chest is of worm-eaten oak, fue feet long and two deep. The bones were discovered bv a woman, who, remarking. " This i s a funny old thing," opened the chest. When she saw the remain s she shrieked and fainted. The furniture dealer has not traced the person who sold him the chest. The Ilealth Ministry ha= been notified.
Robert'' poem Ginevra relates how a young Italian lady of that name on her weddinc day hid herself for a jest in a self-locking oaken chest, the lid of which shut down and entombed her alivo.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18016, 15 February 1922, Page 7
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