Spoonered!

NZ Truth, Issue 1176, 14 June 1928, Page 1

Spoonered!

fOUNSEL: "Did you ever see hifr *" strike her in the dining-room7" Deaf witness: "What?" Counsel (young ■ and slightly nervous): "Er — er — while you were . . striking her, did you ever see her dining . . ." (Uproar). Witness: "Wha' say?" Counsel wrote his question on a piece of paper. piiinuiiinniiiiniiniiiiiuiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinii DESPAIR had claimed her. She > dung to the hope that her lover, the father of the baby, would make her. his wife, but it iwas not to be; and in the lonely bach, standing well i back from Bowhlll Road, the despairing, girl found in death — however it came — release from her misery and' grief. "I .cannot face the world alone; I (would be 'better -dead." Such was the hopeless utterance of Emily to her 'bosom friend, Irene Rubina Passmore, who repeated the words, she told "N.Z. Truth," which Emily Forward had spoken to her when she called on her at the bach three months ago, , • ./>'';■ And for three long months the. two-roomed bach harbored its grim secret from the world. ;' J Cobwebs had grown thickly oh the door-handle, , the narrow -path 1 , leading to the bach from the street 'was overgrown iw.ith lupins and weeds'— the atmosphere of. death, pervaded the place. Yet nobody eveY suspected — not Farewell Letter? even the men who work in the motor garage next. . door — that the .bach housed a dead woman, who, for three months, Jiad sat rigid In a chair. -,- ■ - S-'tf ■ /TyW^ftot "until for's; 'PasSrnore. v wondering' how her 'friend was progressing, called at the bach last week that the shocking tragedy was discovered. It was three months ago that Mrs. Passmore last 'saw her friend alive at the bach where she found death. Three long months before her next visit — and when she arrived at the ibach shortly after mid-day on Wednesday of last week Mrs. Passmore thought the place deserted. . The blinds to the windows were down, cobwebs clung thickly to the door-handle and the garden path was overgrown. The whole place Indicated that the bach was unoccupied and had not been lived in for some time. Mrs. Passmore, thinking her friend had left the bach, was on the point of going away without knocking at the numiiiiuiiiuminiHiniHiiiiiiuiniiiiiiuiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiuiiiiuniiHiiiiiiinHiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniii iiiiiicimiunmiHiii iiiiiiiiiiimiiiimmi iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiimiiiiiminiiiiiiiiiniiiniiiii