Tragedy Follows Petty Theft Accusation
Two hours after 77 year old Miss Emma Mills, of Hill House hospital, Minster, Kent, said she had been accused of stealing three halfcrowns in .the workhouse, she was found .drowned on Birchington sands.
A friend, Mrs .Alice Hudson, of Station Road, Birchington, told the coroner: “She was very upset because the master had searched her and the old ladies shooed her out of the room.”
Mr Francis Turnham, hospital master, said: “I sent for i her and asked if she would open her handbag. \ “She agreed, turned it out, and in it were 17 sixpences and two threepenny bits. She was very worried over the theft.
“It is sad someone that age should meet such an erid,’ said the coroner, who recorded an open verdict “She would have preferred to have lived in her own home, but- sometimes conditions make that impossible for old people.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 14, 20 July 1949, Page 4
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