KILLED ON HOLIDAY
SWISS GIRL'S 60FT. FALL How a girl student met her death while on holiday in Devonshire was described at. an inquest at Kingswe&r recently. * The girl, Margrid Krast, aged JU, a Swiss student in London, whose home was in Zurich, fell 60ft. while climbing the Ara rock, and died the followHans Schaerer, a fellow-student, stated that Miss Krast, with two others, went down to the beach. Miss Krast, remarking, " I am going to crawl a little way up this rock," started climbing, wearing bathing dress, beach pyjamas and rubber-soled shoes. He went to the top by a path. Ha had been opposed to the climb because of the danger. " When I got to the i top," Schaerer went on, " she was nearly there. I lay down and said, ' Give me vour hand, as she was then on drv and very slippery g™" 11 ?- '.. " I "could not reach her, but she did not appear to appreciate her dangers Suddenly her feet slipped, and shei com- | mcnced to slide dowih making attempte J to recover her hold. She failed to ™ | so, and I heard -her fall to the hot- J to T'verdict of "Death fe misadre* J tux a " was recorded* jf m i
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21640, 4 November 1933, Page 3 (Supplement)
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