SLEEP WALKER’S DEATH.
GTItL fc'OJIXA.AfBT'LIST TAKES DRUG. By Telegraph—Press Association -Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable. Association LONDON, January 13. Vina in her night-dress, Ethel Russell. the daughter of an East Ham doctor, left her bedroom in a state of somnambulism and went to her father’s surgery, where she mixed a drug in a cup and drank-the contents. '"The mother found her daughter dead in the surgery in the morning. The evidence at the inquest showed that the girl was never liappiei. and was to have been married in a fortnight. Apparently the taste of the drug awoke her suddenly, and the shock caused her death from syncope.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16940, 15 January 1923, Page 5
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