DANCE TO DEATH

Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1929, Page 11

DANCE TO DEATH

REMARKABLE FAREWELL MESSAGE The story of how a girl attended a , ; dance and then apparently went straight .. to the river and drowned herself was-y-; told at Garstang, when a verdict 0f..-' “Suicide, with no evidence to show the state of her mind at the time,” was returned at the inquest of Mary Overeby (aged 17), of Dale Street, Ulverston. William Nelson,- a Cockerham- farmer, said the girl was to have been married on Easter Monday, and gave him a month’s notice, but the engagement was broken off, and she asked to be kept at the farm. Edward Foster, of Cockerham, said he , had been engaged to Oversby, but the . engagement was broken off by mutual consent, and she did not seem distiessed about it. • He saw her on the Sunday before her death, and they were talking for about an hour outside his home, chiefly about dancing. She danced some of her steps in the road at the time. Evidence was given of the finding or the body in the River Wyre, the girl s hat and coat being on the bank. Insido the hat was a note to her parents, saying: "I have gone novr; I don’t know what I have done it for, I give my I lasting lovo to my loving niother and • z dad, and my sweetheart, Ted Fosi y " Don’t trouble over me. Look after