WOMAN’S SUPERSTITION

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 450, 4 June 1937, Page 5

WOMAN’S SUPERSTITION

DEATH OCCURS AS SEQUEL Pigeon Oh The Windowsill Press Association—Copyright. London, May 22. A solitary pigeon pecking on a windowsill seemed to presage death to Diana McEwan, a 31-year-old Irish brunette. A few hours after she saw it from her room she was found dead, huddled in an eiderdown, near a gas ring. She was in a room directly below that in which Geoffrey Pol. left, a poet, aged 29, was gassed 13 days ago. “Though Diana and/ Poilett were scarcely acquainted, his death affected her in an extraordinary way,” said Mr Patrick O'Brien, an actor, occupying the next room. “The day after his death she .said, ‘There is bound to be another death here. soon. They always come in pairs.’ “Speaking of the pigeon, she said to me, ‘There is only one. if. |here were two it would be all right. One always means' bad luck.’ I told her that she was thinking of magpies, but she was i most frightened.”