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|.l\'K W'O.UAX I.N ( DFI'I.V TDKH). Auk. T 'l'll.' stuiy 111 :! Japanese woman win knocked ;il I !:»■ lid i I !"'l' e.clin a!te it luiil been mm led :In 1 nil mired I" burial liils In uii revealed Imre by llu • luliall Tillies mid Mini. It is stilted iliut the uciinuli (ill. ml Iv ilii’il mu' morninu; at *i h'i m'< and ananoemrnl.-, "ere itt m ill ■ v. ill I'm . and th Us :al s rvii • iva m ■ r ilie c illili. Suddenly t lie pri -.ls and .i'llI.will'd a feeble knoekim; ins'de ni.'llll. The lid Was l ell:,i veil, :.l:d : mourners found that the woman wu alive. The v celled her nailie mid sin lenlied: "I’m I hirst y. (live mi wilier." Wai a was eiveii her and >'■ Has reinoved lo hei lied, lull died twi days later. HKACTY’S noWNKAU, X l'i W V< 111 K . A no. :i. The datielder ol' a railway inaeiiale and once a lending I'mure in Halt iiuore. Sara Cowell, need d.'l, die! alone, ami" the sordid s urroundilies ol a cheap Xe.' York hotel, yesterday, apparently from and overdose ol morpliine, lo which she had become addicted. ( The most beautiful deb;,l,ante el ■' iiu-oilt vetir, she ItKUi'c 1 in a io mant ii elopement in 1000. She divorced her husband two years later and afterwards disappeared. Nolliine was lien id of her until three years a;;o. when she was found in a prison hospital al Blackwell's Island uudei treatiuem as a drug-taker.
She was discharged apparently <u: ■ in 10111 and joined the New \otk posl graduate hospital as a probation,, nurse. Hess than a vein later she wa dismissed for alcoholism. After tlull, nothing was heard ol tin millionaire's daughter until she wa found dead on the lloor ol t' h i!" bedroom vestenlay. She arrived 11
|i'riday with a man, and the two reels lered as Mr and Mrs Cowen, ol Haiti more. 1 ler companion, a ehalleur. disappeared alter telling the hotel clerk that the woman was not his wile am that she was "very ill" in Iter room Xear the body were two bottles eon taining inoipbiue tablets. She inherited a fortune, estimated w (,•100,000, from her father. 1 loth hot parents died several years at?'-
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1921, Page 1
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377NEWS BY MAIL. Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1921, Page 1
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