GRIM SECRET OF CHEST.
GIRL’S SKELTON FOUNL. London, Jan. 31. Recollections of the poem Ginevra, by Samuel Rogers, are raised by the discovery of a girl’s skeleton within an ancient chest which was purchased by one .Vasari, an antique dealer in Portman Square, from a furniture depot at Shepherd’s Bush. The vendor said it had been knocking about for months. The chest is of worm-eaten oak, five feet long and two deep. The bones were discovered by a woman, who, remarking, “This is a funny old thing,” opened the chest. When she saw the remains she shrieked and fainted. The furniture dealer has not traced the person who sold him the chest. The Health Ministry has been notified. Rogers’ poem Ginevra relates how a young Italian lady of that name on her wedding day hid herself for a jest in a self-locking oaken chest, the lid of which shut down aaid entombed her alive.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 February 1922, Page 2
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154GRIM SECRET OF CHEST. Taranaki Daily News, 20 February 1922, Page 2
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