STRANGE CAUSE OF DEATH
ARM CAUGHT IN DRAWER ELDERLY WOMAN DIES IN HOSPITAL. (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 10. Held captive for many hours, with an elbow stuck in the top drawer of a chest of drawers, Helen Maria Theakston, aged 80, a single woman, by occupation a music teacher, of Worcester street, met her death in a strange manner. It is believed that she fainted while opening the drawer before retiring on Tuesday evening, and that the pressure of her body closed the drawer on her arm, so that she could not release herselt. She was unconscious when found yesterday afternoon, and was taken to the hospital, when she died at 7 this morning. She lived alone. . . A IMit was burning in the room when a man emploved in the garden went to the house yesterday morning, lie informed the police, who broke into the house. , ... An inquest will be held.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22259, 11 May 1934, Page 10
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