To Make Sure She Was Dead
LONDON, Dec. 14.—One of Britain's richest noblewomen, the Dowager Countess Peel, set aside ten guineas in her will to make sure that she was not buried alive. This sum was to be paid out of her £4,274,902 estate to a surgeon to cut her jugular vein or perform “some other act” to confirm her death before burial. The Countess died on November 9, aged 77. —N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 16 December 1949, Page 5
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