ISLAND BAY TRAGEDY
BODY OF GIRL IDENTIFIED
The dead body of the girl found locked in a roomrin the Blue Platter Tea House, Island Bay, on Friday, has been identified as that of Violet Anna Climo, a waitress, 20 years of age, who was formerly ternployed on the premises.
It appears that deceased, who was lately living with her sister in lodgings in Cambridge Terrace, was last seen alive on Tuesday last. She and her sister had been employed for some time by Miss Wlartell, the last lessee of the tea. rooms. The two sisters regarded the tea rooms in the light of a home, and were much distressed when it was closed, as they were thrown out of employment. Inside the building in which the tragedy occurred was found a note, unsigned, and written in pencil on a piere of( cardboard: “You might think lam insane, but I am not. I am just tired of life.” At the inquest held yesterday a verdict was returned that deceased had committed suicide by hanging,
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2985, 12 January 1926, Page 3
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173ISLAND BAY TRAGEDY Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2985, 12 January 1926, Page 3
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