Mystery Surrounds Girls Death in Bach
taxi-driver paid rent body found after three MONTHS Press Association yr CHRISTCHURCH, To-day. A porst mortem examination on body of Emily Forward, aged «out 21, was conducted this mornAn inquest will be held this ■narnoon. The circumstances of her death are a mystery. William Burgess, a tad-driver, first took over the lease of “bach” on February 4, and had ifcid the rent till May 19. Burgess is a married man separated from his ***** He now lives with his mother in girl’s body was found in a house Xortft Beach, New Brighton, yesJ r <lay. She had been dead tor three months. The gas had been turned on from v stove in the room where the oay was found, but as the meter was shilling-in-the-slot variety and J 1 ® house isolated, the escape of gas an ceased before it could attract at•sntion.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 374, 7 June 1928, Page 1
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