Picture No | 12152251 |
Date | 1909 |
Description | Violet 'Gordon' Charlesworth: site of the crash |
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The spot at which the motor car of Miss Violet 'Gordon' Charlesworth(b.1884) was alleged to have struck the wall, over which she was said to have been thrown into the sea below at Penmaenbach near Llandudno. Having faked her own death in this way to escape her creditors, she was later discovered alive and well, and sentenced to hard labour.
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Source | Unattributed photograph in The Sketch, 13th January 1909, page 3. |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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