Mary Edith Angus
On the 30th of June, 1896, a beautiful summer morning, Henry Dunkley left home to take a "Verax" article to the "Manchester Guardian" office, stopping at the garden gate to ask his daughter to have strawberries at luncheon. One heard afterwords that on his return from town he had chatted happily with a friend while waiting for a tram-car which he entered without troubling to stop it as was the custom with all young men. A few minutes later he expired on the seat he had taken, probably from heart failure. His one dread in life had been a long illness and from that he had been spared.
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