A TRAGIC SEARCH
WIFE LAY DEAD IN MORGUE. LEAPT FftUM HARBOUR BRIDGE. 1 ' SYDNEY, October 25. A tragic search for a missing wife lay behind yesterday’s Harbour Bridge fatality, when Airs Edith Ethel Rosalind Lee Leapt IS!) feet to her death. While her husband, Francis John Lee, searched high and low for liis wife in the city, police were trying to find him to tell' him of her death. After five hours’ fruitless quest, he went home, there to meet the police and be taken back to the where ho identified the broken of his wife. Airs Lee, -aged 33 yeans, had been in ill-health since her last baby was born, seven months ago, but seemed more cheerful, yesterday morning when, with her husband and child,she set out shopping. She gave the baby to her husband to nurse while she went into, a butcher’s shop, came out a few minutes later, and told Air Lee to wait while she went to another shop further along the road. She did not return, however, and the anxious husband, after giving the baby to friends to mind, set out in search of her. Apparently the unfortunate woman went straight to the city, to make her leap from the Harbour Bridge.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1932, Page 2
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207A TRAGIC SEARCH Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1932, Page 2
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