A STRANGE TRAGEDY
GIRL’S DEATH JUST BEFORE MARRIAGE. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, January 13. (Received Jan. 14, at 5.5 p.m.) Clad in her nightdress, Ethel Russell, the daughter of an East Ham doctor, left her bedroom in a state of somnambulism, and went to her father’s surgery, where she mixed a drug in a cup and drank it. Her mother found her daughter dead in the surgery in the morning. Evidence at the inquest showed that the girl had never been happier. She was to be married in a fortnight. Apparently the taste of the drug awoke her suddenly, and the shock caused her death from syncope.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18761, 15 January 1923, Page 5
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111A STRANGE TRAGEDY Otago Daily Times, Issue 18761, 15 January 1923, Page 5
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