Death From Tight Lacing.
A verdict of death from bight lacing is, perhaps, still to be sought among the curiosities of law, but a Birmingham jury have come near it in a verdict of death from pressure round the waist. The victim was a poor servant girl, who died after a fright, and her death was attributed by the medical witnesses to the fact that she was too tightly belted to enable her to stand the wear and tear of any sudden emotion. She was a notorious tight lacer ; her collar fitted so closely bbab it was impossible to loosen it at the critical moment, and under her stays she wore a belt so remorselessly buckled as to prevent the free circulation of the blood.
A true bill — Shakespeare, Kemember, impertinence isn't wit any more than insolence is brilliancy. There seems bo be no difficulty about the electric current killing anybody who is not a criminal. Waiter — Haven't you forgotten something, sir ? Customer— Ah, yes ! a toothpick, thanks ! " How do you feel now, Sue ?" asked one .Chicago woman of another who had just secured a divorce. "I feel unmanned," she replied.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 417, 6 November 1889, Page 4
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191Death From Tight Lacing. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 417, 6 November 1889, Page 4
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