TWO LOVERS KILLED BY FALLING OVER A PRECIPICE.
A tragic event occurred recently at Clitheroe. Elizabeth Hayward, cook in tho service of Mr K. Briggs, of Bankfieldhouae, and her lover, Arthur Southworth, the son of Mr Henry Southworth, a general dealer of that place, went out for a walk. They did not return, and great anxiety was felt as to their whereabouts. On Sunday morning Thomas Varey, strolling at the foot of a precipice in Salthill quarries, discovered two bodies. They proved to be those of the missing lovers. Southworth and his sweetheart, during their ramble on the previous night, and while they were taking, it is believed, " a short cut," towards Bankfield-house, stepped off the rock and fell a depth of 70ft. They were found lying side by side, and Soutbworth's skull was fractured. The young woman's body was warm, and it is supposed that she lingered for some hours after the accident. The nigbt was a very dark one, but the young man knew the district well. The occurrence caused great excitement in the locality of Clitheroe, and on Sunday the quarries in which the lovers lost their lives were visited by thousands of people.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2736, 25 January 1890, Page 6 (Supplement)
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197TWO LOVERS KILLED BY FALLING OVER A PRECIPICE. Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2736, 25 January 1890, Page 6 (Supplement)
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