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FRIEND’S SACRIFICE

TRAGEDY OP TWO WIDOWS. Mrs Ellen Beechy and Mrs Elizabeth. Haynes worked as office cleaners in the same building in Gray’s Inn, London, for 28 years, and never said more than “ Good day ” to each other all that time. Mrs Beechy, who is 62 years old and a widow, fell ill a few weeks ago. and could not clean, the first floor of the building. But Mrs Haynes, who 1 looked after the second floor, heard of her illness, and at once took on her duties.

While Mrs Beechy lay w T eak with pneumonia in' hospital, Mrs Haynes carried on alone, doing the work of two. On Christmas Day Mrs Beechy returned home, and her first thought; was to thank her friend for keeping her lob opeh. __ Mrs Beechy went to the rooms of Mrs Haynes. There Mrs Haynes’s daughter told her that the extra work had been too much for her mother, and she had died.

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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21578, 25 February 1932, Page 4

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FRIEND’S SACRIFICE Otago Daily Times, Issue 21578, 25 February 1932, Page 4

FRIEND’S SACRIFICE Otago Daily Times, Issue 21578, 25 February 1932, Page 4