OTTERBURN CRIME
MURDER OF MISS FOSTER. THE INQUEST CONCLUDED. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, February 5. At the inquest on Miss Foster the jury returned a verdict of murder against an unknown person. It is believed that the person poured petrol on Miss Foster and set fire to her. A message received on January 8 stated:—Evelyn Foster, a pretty brunette, aged 28, the daughter of a garage proprietor, was found lying beside her blazing motor car on a lonely, moor near Otterburn, a few miles from the Scottish border. Before dying in her father’s arms she described in whispers how she had been murdered. She said: “On my way home a stranger requested me to give him a lift, saying that he had come from Scotland. I took him as far as Belsay, when he asked me to turn back, which I did, at Kirkwhelpington, he stfinned me with a blow on the head and threw me back into the car, which he set on fire and pushed over a stone bank. I remember being jolted across the moor and crawling from the blazing car.” A bus driver saw the blaze and found Miss Foster terribly injured, with her clothes burned off.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21254, 7 February 1931, Page 11
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204OTTERBURN CRIME Otago Daily Times, Issue 21254, 7 February 1931, Page 11
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