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Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1922, Page 4

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DRAMA OF THE WOODS. A POISON CHARGE. FAENBAAI, Nov. -1. The experience of a man and woman who spent four days in a wood at Deep Cut, near Frimloy, Surrey, the man being found unconscious, had a sequel

at the pslico court at Furnham to-day, when Dorothy .Spring, 29. of Cleethor-pes-rcacl, Grimsby, was charged with having attempted to commit suicide by taking poison. She was remanded until Thursday.

The imyi, Albert Mills, -13, described as a whist-room proprietor, of Devoiipoi t-strect, Bolton, is lying in a seri-

ous condition at the infirmary at Farniwim svifi'erinf, it is believed, from the effect of veronal poisoning. .Mills should have appeared at Bolton Police Court a week last Monday 10 answer a charge of indecently assaulting two girls but did not do so, mid a warrant, for his arrest was issued . The circumstances in which the couple came to Deeji Cut and lived iu the woods, exposed to intense cold, are a mystery. The spot where the' lived is 50 or 70 \ards from the roadway, amid a thick growth i t bracket. and fir trees. STORY OF WOMAN’S PLEA.

ft is stated that both the man and llie woman had lain unconscious for a ci nside: a'c-le part of the four days. It is believed that they’ travelled from their Tomes at Bolton and Grimsby aid met l:v appointment in London, On >Mnday morning they can e bv train I rom London to Brookwoo i.

"lieiico they walked to Deep Cut, about two miles away. Mills was in training in the neighbourhood of l-’rini-ley during the war. .Mr Wiliam Mason, a farm foreman ei Deep Cut, told me this evening that about 8 o'clock on Thursday morning he met the woe. an in the road ouisidhis I m;se. She looked weak and was sliiveiii g with cold. “In a path: tic voice,” said Mr .Mason, “she asked n-o to heir- her. She was unable In explain v.hat she wanted and I took her into the house, "here she recovered somewhat after she had wanned herself in front of the fire and had had some tea. She thc-n explained l!:at there was a man lying in the v., ods and that she wanted somebody to go to help 1 iini. “She wore a mole-coloured velvet cloak with a brown fur collar,” - said Airs Mason, “and when she took it. off I was surprised to see that she was in a sort of semi-evening dress.” Mrs Mason added that the woman

said that, she had been rubbing Hie man's bands all the previous night to keep him alive. Air and Mrs .Mason, with the woman, went into the wood and 1- .-ml .Mills King unconscious in the. bn ebon.