RESULT OF COINCIDENCE.
The " long arm of coincidence " has brought about a painful tragedy ia connection with the new play at the Garriok in London. It seems that, despite Mr Pincro's care in ccining a (as he supposed) unique name for his heroine, there was ia existence a real Mrs Ebb&mitb, or rather EbbSmith, and worse still she had figured in the Divorce Court owiug to an unhappy marriage, acid imagined herself " notorious," ). aturally very eccentric, this genuine Mrs Ebbsmith laßbed herself into a r ge over the title of tha Garrck piay. Preoieely what Bhe felt nobody knows. She wrote to her brother that she had bad "an awful week " owing to tbe " Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith," but t' at she heard the pay was a superb work of art, and felt aha ought to be flat'ered, On Saturday Bhe was going to see it. On Friday eueoing, however, the poor woman took train from town to Reading auddn waed herself in the Thames. It was thovn that deceased, though a robuat elderly woman had lorg baen " queer " and hovering on the brink of iutanity.
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Colonist, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8262, 31 May 1895, Page 3
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185RESULT OF COINCIDENCE. Colonist, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8262, 31 May 1895, Page 3
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