FRIEND'S SACRIFICE.
TRAGEDY OF TWO WIDOWS. Mrs. Ellen Beechy and Mrs. Elizabeth Haynes worked as office cleaners in the same building in Gray's Inn, London, for 28 years, and never said more than " Good day " to each other all that time. Mrs. Beechy, who is 62 years old and a widow, fell ill a few weeks ago, and could not clean the first floor of the building. But Mrs. Haynes, who looked after the second floor, heard of her illness, and at once took on her duties. While Mrs. Beechy lay weak with pneumonia in hospital, Mrs. Haynes carried on alone, doing tho work of two. On Christmas Day Airs. Beechy returned home, and her first thought was to thank her friend for keeping her job open. Mrs. Beechy went to the rooms of Mrs. Haynes. There Mrs. Haynes' daughter told her that the extra work had been too much for her molher, and she had died.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21112, 20 February 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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157FRIEND'S SACRIFICE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21112, 20 February 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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