GIRL'S SHOCKING DEATH.
RIDES over HIGH WFF« ■ " ■ : — ' ' Mm SAD BRIGHTON TRAGEDY. CYCLE OUT OF CONTROL* By Telegraph— - Association— (Received • 8.55 p.m.,) . * A. and N.Z. LONDON.* May 19. A strange tragedy ;is ; reported ; from :: Brighton. _ The victim was Miss .Elsie ,: Simmons," aged 18, a member of a London motoring party spending, the week-end at the well-known resort. - ' The : visitors ■ -were" £ listening ■to - a ■ gramophone on the cliffs when suddenly Miss Simmons jumped up and mounted a friend's I motor-cycle. ■ She persisted in . 7 riding it despite the owner's >. objections. The girl lost control of the machine t = and, with it she plunged over the cliff and } fell 100 ft. to the shore : below. > ■:'.' ■• Miss 3 Simmons was shockingly injured. ! She died a few hours later.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18713, 20 May 1924, Page 7
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124GIRL'S SHOCKING DEATH. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18713, 20 May 1924, Page 7
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