Margery Hopegood was born in New Zealand but had been adopted by a English family and raised there.
She had been back in New Zealand just four days when she was brutally murdered.
Nicola Pauling's play She Danced on a Friday tells Margery Hopegood's story Photo: supplied
The murder was huge news and the people of Hamilton turned out in their hundreds to a memorial service for a woman none of them know.
Wellington playwright and actor Nicola Pauling has a strong family connection to Margery and turned the full story of her visit to New Zealand into a play called She Danced on a Friday.
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