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THE HONGKONG

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, TELEGRAPH,

1998.

Child Ran Into House

Coroner's Fire Test

On Dress T

-to Death "LARK MAY HAVE

Leeds. Three-year-old curly haired Edith Ann Alack was fatally gassed here recently, a few moments after she had run unsuspectingly into a house which was being fumigated by cor- poration workmen,

The child died on the garden path along which she had pranced, on a visit to the family friend she knew as "grannie."

Upstairs in the house one of two men engaged in fumigation work was opening windows to allow the dendly clear hydrogen cyanide fumes to away. He was wearing a gas mask.

The tragedy occurred within 20 yards of Edith's home at the corner of Neville-road, on the corporation's Wykeback housing estate.

HEARD COUGHS

On the door of the house and the ono adjoining were warning notices printed in red letters: "This building is now being fumigated with hydro- gen cyanide dangerous gas. All persons are warned to keep away." But to Edith's blue eyes, anxiou for the sight of her "grannie," the placards meant nothing. She pusherl open the door and ran into the pas ange, A moment later a workman overhead heard her coughing, and the sound of her falling.

He raced down the stairs, snatched up the child, and ran into the open. Edith was still alive, but she died while neighbours gave first old,

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CAUSED DEATH"

Surprise expressed by a coroner recently that Chelmsford had no am- bulance service of its own may draw a statement from the Mayor, Councillor J. T. Bellamy, at the next meeting of the borough council.

A town of 30,100 people, Chelmsford owns the gas and water supplies, market, cemetery, recreation grounds, public library, and public

baths.

The Inquest was on Miss Phyliss Maude Newcombe, of Bishops-road, Chelmsford, who' died from burns when her frock caught fire after. & dance she attended with her flance at the Shire Hall.

A witness said the voluntary St. John Am- bulance was a long time in arriving, but then did good work.

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I commented the Coroner, Mr. L. F. Becele, in Hongkong this week aboard the freighter Granville, "but I am amazed that a town of the size of They are under the care of Clifford M' Pressmall who Chelmsford has not got its own service. That, hopes to take them to an American Zoo--Staff Photo-

grapher. however, is a matter for the residents."

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An official said, "We have arrangement with the St. John Ambulance Brigade where- by an ambulance is always at our disposal. We, of course, pay towards its maintenance.

"The scheme kas always worked very well, and there has never been cause for any com- plaini."

Recording a verdlet of Arcidental Death, Mr. Beccle sald, "From all my experience I have never come across

a case so mysterious as this."

McAusland, of Linden- Henry street,

Newcombe's Romford, Mirs flance, said, "Asi we were coming out of the ballroom I heard Phyllis scream, and saw her enveloped in- flames.

"Nobody was near her. I formed the opinion that a careless person must have thrown away a cigarette end which must have come in co71- tact with the dress."

The girl's father, Mr. George New- combe, produced n piece of material of which the girl's dress was mode, and Mr. Becele applled his cigarette lighter to it. The materini imme- diately flared up.

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The father then applied lighted end of a cigarette to the material, but it did not Ignite.

Mr. Becele said "it may well be that this tragedy is the work of Fomeone with a perverted sense of humour. The most improbable cause is a cigarette. and the most probable a lighted match."

Trapeze Girl Shot As Band Play

Algiers.

A girl who took the place of Madeleine Cuisin- ard, trapeze artist in Blackpool Tower Circus who was shot and wounded by her jealous husband in July, was found shot last month. The girl, known as "Miss

though she Harrison," French, said when she took over Mme. Cuisinard's part: “I am show not. superstitious. The must go on."

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she was found is her appearing. dressing-room with a bullet wound 13 the heart. Her condition

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to marry a 17-year-old Batter- sea boy. And instead of the girl's parents being annoyed they are help-

The crack of her revolver was heard by stage hands as the banding the marriage plans forward. were playing the introductory bars to her turn.

"Miss Harrison" was found lying in her silver tights and a cape of gold tissue, the weapon, one of those she used in a Wild West Del, in her hand,

She had told a colleague she had been disappointed in love.

The couple are Phyllis Leonard, of Vicarage-crescent, and Albert Win- son, of Lavender-hili, "What's the use of objecting?" said Miss Leonard's mother. "If parents don't give their blessing young people marry in de- fiance and don't forgive their parents for a very long time."

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