A WIDOW'S SUICIDE
FORMERLY WIFE OF NEW • ZEALAND SOLDIER. LOSSES THROUGH FRAUD. Press Association—By Telegraphy-Copyright. LONDON, January 25. (Received Jan. 26, at 5.6 p.m.) During the inquest on Mrs Irene Welsh, widow, who committed suicide by jumping from a window of e Kensington boardinghouse, it was stated that her first hnsbana was a New Zealand soldier, who Was killed in the war. Mrs Welsh had a capital of £3OOO, but she spent or lost it all, mainly in fraudulent investment. On one occasion she paid 50 guineas as consideration for a promise that she could 'understudy Miss Gladys Cooper. The New Zealand Government generously gave her a pension for two years after her first husband’s death.—A. and N.Z. Cable. /
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18464, 27 January 1922, Page 5
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119A WIDOW'S SUICIDE Otago Daily Times, Issue 18464, 27 January 1922, Page 5
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