Newspaper clipping Singular Case of Sudden Death in an Eating House On Saturday evening a man and a woman entered an eating house in Stockwell Street and were furnished on demand with a supply of tripe and potatoes. Shortly after...the young woman was observed to grow ghastly pale and becoming speechless also, an alarm was raised. The man pretended to run for a doctor but never returned...A post-mortem examination was made....when it was ascertained that the cause of death was choking - a piece of tripe having stuck in the woman's throat...
Have posted this before but my GG Aunt (age 26) fits your Friday 13th and today's Valentines topics with the worst date ever.
She died in the back of the police cab enroute to hospital in 1879, choking on tripe. Her date didn't even stick around...
#Genealogy #worstdateever #Valentines
