ABSTRACT
The body of Mrs. Percy, a local actress at Aldershot, was found on Monday in the Basingstoke Canal, which divides the South from the North Camp. The Daily Telegraph thus accounts for her death:—“About nine months ago her husband died, and since then she and her daughter (aged sixteen years) continued to follow their profession in camp and town. Having been seen in soldiers’ company by the Metropolitan Police who are employed at Aldershot to carry out the provisions of the Contagious Diseases Acts, the mother and daughter were summoned to attend the Lock Hospital to undergo medical examination. In preference to obeying the summons they discontinued their engagements and left the town; but, not finding employment, Mrs. Percy returned to Aldershot a few days ago, and was again warned to attend the hospital. Rather than do so she drowned herself.”
