GIRL NEARLY DROWNED.
DISCOVERED IN A BATH. ROPE BOUND , THE ; LEGS. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] ■■ ■<■'. ;' CHEISTCHUECH,' : Saturday. r ; A girl named Gwitha King, aged 20, was found in the bathroom of a home in Hereford Street yesterday: in f strange circumstances. A rope was tied \ round > her legs, the water was turned on, and heq throat was lacerated. : : Fortunately ! the : .; girl's' head: wasr kept' above water or she would have been drowned, as >• she was missing for two hours : prior to being found. She was ad- : mitted 'to " the Christchurch Hospital and v . is'?. progressing favourably. .She 1 is under, stood to have had a nervous breakdown."■--;
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18706, 12 May 1924, Page 8
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