DEATH DUE TO HOBBLE SKIRT.
A hobble skirt caused the death of Mrs Ethel Hawksley Lindley, aged thirty-two, a member of a prominent Nantwich lamily, and wife of a retired Manchester cotton manufacturer, living at Davenham Cottage, Northwich. While she was taking a walk wearing a hobble skirt, she climbed a stile, but fell, and was found with one leg broken in two places. Septic poisoning supervened and the leg was amputated, but death occurred Irom heart failure.
“I have the greatest respect for women and their dresses,” said the coroner at the inquest, ‘‘but I wish that when they take country walks they would not wear hobble skirts.”
The jury returned a verdict of “Accidental death.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1032, 18 April 1912, Page 4
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117DEATH DUE TO HOBBLE SKIRT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1032, 18 April 1912, Page 4
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