Thousands Witness Funeral of Murdered London Typist
HUNDREDS OF WEEPING WOMEN By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright. Received 1.51 p.m. LONDON, Wednesday. THERE were amazing scenes, and crowds totalling- 25,000 at the funeral fo the murdered typist, Constance Oliver, who was foun dstrangled in a London Park, resulting in the arrest of Sidney Goulter, son of a retired police inspector. Outside the home at Battersea, foot and mounted police had to keep back a huge crowd, in which hundreds were unrestrainedly weeping.
rpHE hearse was covered with masses of flowers, especially symbolical broken liies, sent from all over London.
Crowds lined the roads for two miles to the Morden Cemetery, where there was an extraordinary rush to the chapel doors. The police kept back screaming and
weeping women, of whom dozens lost their hats in the crush.
More crowds were at the cemetery where there was the unusual spectacle of a roped-off grave.
When the coffin was lowered the girl’s father collapsed, and would have fallen into 'the grave but friends caught him and assisted him from the graveside.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 174, 13 October 1927, Page 13
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