SHOCKING TRAGEDY
A GIRL MURDERED. [United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] (Reoeived this uay at 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, January 7. Evelyn Foster, a pretty brunette, aged 28, a daughter of a. garage proprietor was found lying beside her blazing motor car cn a lonely moor near Otterburn, a few miles from the Scottish border late last night . Before dying in her father’s arms she described in whispers how she had been murdered. She said:—“On my way home a stranger requested me to give him a lift, saying he bad come from (Scotland. I took him as far as Belsay when lie asked me to turn back which I did. At Kirkwhelpington he stunned me with a blow on the head and threw me back into the car which he set on fire and pushed over a stone bank. T remember being jolted across the moor and crawling from the blazing car.” A bus driver saw the blazing i car and found Miss Foster terribly injured udth her clothes burned off.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1931, Page 4
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169SHOCKING TRAGEDY Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1931, Page 4
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