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YOUNG WOMAN’S DEATH A BACH TRAGEDY [ Fer t’.-p’-s Association. ¥ CHRISTCHURCH, Jane T. The inquest into the death of EmilyMartha Forward, aged 21, who was found dead in a bach at North Beach, New Brighton, yesterday, was opened to-day. Irene Passmore, a married woman, gave evidence of having visited the bach and found the body, which shet identified . She knew the girl, who had lived at the bach some time. She last saw her about three months ago. The coroner: Do you know why she went there? Witness. Yes. She couldn’t keep her position because she was expecting to become a mother, and hail not been too | well. 'Fhc inquest was adjourned sine die. The bach was rented lor a period of twelve mouths early in the year by William Burgess, a taxi driver, who paid the rent regularly up till about the middle of May. The police have had a long interview with Burgess. The body of the woman was found in a sitting position in a chair with 8 gas tube beside her head and the gas turned on from the stove alongside her As the gas meter was of the shilling in the slot variety the escape of gat had ceased, and the presence of gas, a: it might otherwise have been, was no< detected.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20167, 8 June 1928, Page 7
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220A SORDID STORY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20167, 8 June 1928, Page 7
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