"I AM DEAD"
fWOMAN'S LETTER TO THE POLICE. By Telegraph—Press Associi ticin. Auckland, Juno 11. The dramatic announcement, "I am dead," was contained in a letter addressed to the police and received through the post at the Auckland police station. It was signed "Margaret Colquitt," tie name of a woman who escaped from Pakatoa with two others who were recaptured. Colquitt has not since been traced. The letter goes on to state that the writer was inditing tho letter "in the bush," that she was starving of hunger, and intended to do away witli herself, and that "you will find my body in tho water somewhere." The police had not traced her at r> o'clock to-day. '
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2794, 12 June 1916, Page 6
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116"I AM DEAD" Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2794, 12 June 1916, Page 6
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