TRAGEDY IN CHURCH
GIRL'S DEATH FROM RAZOR WOUND. DUBLIN, May 2. An extraordinary tragedy occurred in the Roman Catholic church of St. Michael and St. John here this morning. Mary Behan, aged 20, who lived at Chapelizod, a suburb of Dublin, attended the 0.30 o’clock Mass and occupied a seat in front of the altar. After the reading of the Last Gospel she lighted two candles before th? statue of the Sacred Heart, rose, and fell to the floor with a razor wound in the throat.
Those sitting near to her tried to stop the bleeding by means of pocket handkerchiefs. A priest in the church administered the last rites to the young woman, and she was removed in an ambulance to Jervis-strect hospital. Before she reached the hospital, however, she was dead. It was found that the razor had severed her jugular vein, and she, must have died within a few minutes.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19846, 21 May 1927, Page 14 (Supplement)
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153TRAGEDY IN CHURCH Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19846, 21 May 1927, Page 14 (Supplement)
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