WOMAN OF PARTS
KNIFE PLAY AND CULTURE. LONDON, January 12. While Herbert Musgrave was leaving a Bradford hotel, where he was employed as pianist, Catherine Thorpe, aged 20, stopped him, pulled out a knife from her handbag, and struck him a violent blow. Musgrave was taken to hospital, where he died, and Thorpe has been arrested on a charge of wilful murder. The woman, who Is well educated, speaking three languages, lives apart from her husband, who recently refused to allow her to return, and is suing for a divorce, meanwhile retaining the child of the marriage. Mrs Thorpe figured in a strange- adventure on Christmas Eve. when she was found lying in the roadway at night. She explained that she had missed her last car, and had accepted a lift in a motor-car, in which were three men. She was being tepidly driven in a wrong direction, when uhe protested and was thrown out*
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Southland Times, Issue 19459, 26 January 1925, Page 5
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