SINGLE WOMAN MISSING.
♦ ./;; CLOTHES ON RIVER BANK. "BEST THING I CAN DCT , [BY TELKCBAPH.—OWN COBRK3POKDWT.]- v WANGANUI, Monday.; Tragic circumstances surround the disappearance of a young woman, Misslvj | PurnelJ, from her home at .Kitchener ; J Street, Wanganui East, and the evident" indicates that she met her death .by.. . drowning. She was last seen at seven ' o'clock on Saturday evening, when her_ mother left home to go to the pictures.. -, On the latter's return she found a win-; . dow open and a, note ( in her daughter's, Writing: " Good-bye. lam going to the -■ i . river. It is the best thing I can do.|V A.- ;. number of posUiards addressed io sisters. were also found. -V. As soon as the police were mfonnea !-.;• they started a search, and found Mua • Purnell's skirt and nightdress on the rive? bank just above the Aramoho Bntlge, 01 the Wanganui East side. A closer search, revealed the print of bare feet in tw ■ - mud at the watsr's edge. _ ™9 pcm / :i dragged the river in the vicinity, but...» far nd trace of tho missing woman* body has been found. ' ■ , Miss Purnell, who was about 30 yews . of age, had been in ili-healtb "for, sol" time/and had been attended by a doctsfc
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18235, 31 October 1922, Page 6
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203SINGLE WOMAN MISSING. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18235, 31 October 1922, Page 6
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