Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Monday 27 February 1922
Pauper Funeral.
Burial of Victims of Hotel Tragedy.
The victims of the Nottingham hotel tragedy were given a pauper’s funeral on Saturday, and were both buried in the same grave. No mourners followed the coffins, and there were no wreaths or flowers.
The coffins were of plain elm with black mountings. A Church service was dispensed with, only the graveside committal sentences – being read by the cemetery chaplain the Rev. T. Adamson, who also offered a prayer for the bereaved.
The name-plate read: “Albert Edwin Allaby. aged 48 years” ; “Ethel Guthroe, aged 34 years. Arrangements for interment in the General Cemetery were made by the Poor-Law officials.
None of the members of the clergyman’s family attended. His widow is lying ill at Denaby Main.