GIRL’S AMAZING STORY
DEATH FALSELY ANNOUNCED DESIRE TO MISLEAD HER LOVER. SEXTON DISCLOSES THE FRAUD. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Nov. 18. An extraordinary story was told in the Lawrence Court to-day when Ethel Margaret Fahey, aged 20, pleaded guilty to sending to a newspaper for publication a notice of her death knowing it to be untrue. The girl’s statement to the police was that her 'purpose was to lead a young man in Dunedin to believe that she was dead, this man, she averred, having written threatening to “do for her” if she did not resume acquaintance. She denied that the advertisement was inserted to mislead Dunedin creditors. Her advertisement announced a funeral from Milton and burial at Anderson’s Bay. The sexton ’phoned the undertakers at Milton pointing out that he had no instructions to dig a grave. The magistrate, Mr. Dixon, ordered the girl to come up for sentence if called upon, remarking that she was not well, educated and apparently unaware of the seriousness of her action.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 November 1930, Page 9
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