YOUNG BRIDE'S DEATH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18571, 1 December 1923, Page 2 (Supplement)

YOUNG BRIDE'S DEATH.

BODY TO BE EXHUMEQ " j A MYSTERIONS ILLNB8&, MOTHER'S SAD STORt i : An exhumation order -was issued l» Mr. R. Cuthbert, the coroner of Wif -' Oxfordshire, •: for,the opting of tfoS? I '''' ' of Beatrice Fanny Clarkson, wftJTJ "J Charles Clarkson, a London waiter ft-'. ; j order was made under instructions" "fJ!?''"' ] the Home Office. ' **=> These are the brief official facts o-' coming the death mystery of a pri?" young vroraan, which formed the iJ! of long inquiry by skilled detectives iLZ Scotland Yard. fr<aa [ Mrs. Clarkson died m St. Thomas* B pital, London, on September 6 bhaT' death was duly certified by 'one of doctors at the hospital. She had ' : h«l •*' for a fortnight, first at her lodJa' ■" Tennyson Street, Lambeth, where lie lU'j with her husband, and later in ih 9 iL pital. aw Her body was taken to Witney' L. native place, and she was burii'd li'lfc ; .' picturesque cemetery of the quaint fW fordshire town on September 10. ]&!!* grave was next to that of her sister J* nie Pimm, who (tied iast Easter, '* tt " Mrs. Clarkson's death occurred witV four months of her romantic ma*riai» ' She met her husband as a sequel toi »" matrimonial advertisement, and the ngt that she was engaged surprised her»! lations. . v *■"■:'

Buried in hat Wedding Gown, " 1 She was married in Witn<iy Vstish I Church on May 19. The foikiwing dw 1 she went to Lambeth .with her husband '■' I She became ill toward the end of Aujrast' ■ and was moved to St. Thomas' Hospital' I where she died. The funeral service W 8. conducted by the Eev. R. tTnsworth r«- . B tor of the'parish, who b?d" married th* K young couple. Mrs. Clarkson, by her own J wish, was buried in her wedding gown. f One of the wreaths placed on tlie grave I was from her busband. It bore the fol- 1 lowing lines: ' '<£ The night shall be filled with marie. I Afad th« cares •which infest th* d»j ' « Shall close there testa like tie Aj|»bi . 1 And as silently steal away. " ' \ Your loving and devoted husband. \- I .-. CEAEW3B. I . Mrs. Pimm, mother of the dead woman, I related the story of her daughter's' wort. i ship and her fatal illness. "Jf? -' daughter," she said, "was one of,the I best girls that ever a mother could We, I She was extremely pretty, and of fa* l physique. She never gave us the slight- t' est cause for anxiety. She never had'* '-.. day's * ill-health all- her life until she w*s stricken down by the illness that killed her. • , . v "She worked for her own living, first in service and then in hotels. Hep !*& place before she « was married. was at the George Hotel, where she "was & waitress. She saved her money and had a nice sum in the bank. ..' " We at homo knew nothing about Mr Clarkson, until he called one day on; visit. My daughter was staying withes I on a holiday. - * fi | " A man knocked at the door, and | when I answered it he asked for .Mis* I I Beatrice Pimm, My daughter came ■§ i downstairs, and the caller said, •'I. am I Mr. Clarkson. Haven't you received my ; I letter? 'No letter had come that mom-' | ing for my daughter. That was the,fiist ■ \\ time I saw my ; future son-in-law./',Bj% went out and spent the day at Oxford.' "He called again, and my daughter is* formed me they were going to be marI ried. I thought that it was rather soon ; after the death of her sister Jennie at : Easter, but I said she was ©14 ' enough to know her own* mind, and if she thought she would be happy I would agree to the marriage. The wedding took ! place on the Saturday before Whit Sim day. v . . . ,» . - "My daughter wrote -regularly to us from London, and, seemed like her .life there. Then on Sunday, September % I I received a telegram saying that she was,;- ■ seriously ill. I ! went to .-"London, M*'found he? in St. Thomas* Hospital 'She ' said that' she suffered great pain in the stomach... and was sick. - Young Wife's Unexpected' Death. V "There was ft curious blue colour about her face. She had two doctors 4« attend her in her rooms i' at Teonj'sos Street; and I was informed I that they could not understand; her .illness, and so advised that 'she should go to the hospital. Her husband was attentive and considerate, and whan he was off duty from ,| his • work as a waiter' went to the hospital ■' J and sat with her. •He brought her fruit I " The ward sister informed me on va-fr-. ) .Tuesday that she • did not think *«?">:' was any cause for anxiety regarding in? daughter, and I ■ returned! ■; home. Late on the 1 'Thursday I received a'telegram. Mfc ing me to go to my daughter at once.' i had to motor to Oxford and catch a I«* train. I drove froni ■; PaddingtOEL to m hospital, but I was too late. She did before I reached her. .'.. * "Her death was almost; more : than, i could bear. I insisted thai she . must m brought back :to Witney, : her > old home place, and lie in the cemetery by the ado of her sister." ". v