SCAPEGOAT FOR SISTER
WELSH GIRL'S ACTION LONDON, Feb. IS. A girl's noble action in. leaving letters making herself a scapegoat to save her younger sister, was referred to yesterday by the Liverpool coroner. Dr.' G. C. Mori, at an inquest on -Isabe.ll Roberts, 22, housemaid-watireas, of Blaennn Fostiniog, North Wales. She was drowned in the Mersey, and ii verdict was returned of suicide, with insufficient evidence to show the state of her mind. Mrs. Vera Lawrencinn Fyfo, wife of a consulting engineer, of Southwood road, Liverpool, said the girl had been in her service for 12 months. In November the girl went out with her sister, and they were arrested in a city store for dishonesty. The coroner said he was nol prepared to say that the girl had committed an act of moral cowardice, and lidded: "I am not so sure that it was not a very brave act to take the blame, and in so doing make it lighter for her younger .sister, whom she led astray. I think there is a coil nit) nobility in the way she has made herself a scapegoat."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18992, 17 April 1936, Page 2
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186SCAPEGOAT FOR SISTER Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18992, 17 April 1936, Page 2
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