DEATH IN COURT
WIDOW’S FATAL COLLAPSE. (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, November 5. "Hiere was a tragedy in the Swansea Police Court, when Elizabeth Scott, a widow, aged 58, sought to have her landlady bound over to keep the peace. The widow declared that she was not afraid of the landlady in a physical sense, but was afraid of pesterings, as she had tried to evict her from her rooms during the past seven years. It would kill her. Hardly had the widow’s son given evidenc when she fell and died in a few minutes.
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Southland Times, Issue 19394, 7 November 1924, Page 5
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100DEATH IN COURT Southland Times, Issue 19394, 7 November 1924, Page 5
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