SLEEP-WALKER'S DEATH.
FOUND DEAD- IN SURGERY. DRUG TAKEN IN SLEEP. ' Australian ancUN-.Z. Cable Association. y (Reed. 4.30 p.m.) :,.:.;' ■'.; .'■''" LONDON, Jan., 13. Clad in a nightdress/Ethel Russell, the daughter of an East Ham doctor, left her bedroom in ■ a state of-" somnambulism, went to her father's, surgery,; where she mixed a drug in a cup and drank the contents. The mother, found her dead in the surgery in the morning. ; / Evidence at the inquest showed that the girl had never been happier: in her life,'. She was to have been married in a fort--night. Apparently the taste of th; drug awoke her suddenly, and. the shock/caused death from syncope;* . . .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18298, 15 January 1923, Page 7
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