THE-WRIGHT CASE

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 106, 7 May 1934, Page 9

THE-WRIGHT CASE

ACTION OVER JEWELS

NEGLIGENCE ALLEGED

LONDON", April 27.

An action for alleged negligence in respect of jewels is beiug brought by Mrs. Wright,, mother of Miss Dorothy Wright, who was reported to have committed suicide in a Paris flat in November. - : ' ■ ''; ■" '' '

■ Mrs. Wright is suing the proprietors of tho Embassy Hotel, Bayswater, London. The jewellery was brought from. Paris after the girl's death, and was lost..' ■■•.■■.'•:' ■ : ..■::■■' ;• ■> ; .',_ :

The plaintiff's solicitors state that immediately after the case is concluded", new investigations'into Dorothy Wright's death will be opened in Paris.

Miss Dorothy Wright, a beautiful girl, 24 years old, was found shot in a bath in a ground floor flat in the Hue de la Tour. She had been a friend of Roland Coty, son of the millionaire perfume manufacturer and newspaper owner. '

tho programme, six in other parts of Derbyshire, three in.Staffordshire, and two in-Scotland. :'■.■•' - . ■ ;

Tlfc circumstances of 1922 put an cud' to the undertaking, for the money had for the most part been expended, and the need for oil had ceased to be urgent. Mr..vß. L. Ickos, one of the geological staff, an American, who was in no small way responsible fov working out the whole scheme, summarising tho results by saying that of the ( wells sunk:—■ "Two yielded encouraging showings; three cannot be considered' as having boon adequately tested; and five produced dry holes, although in some of these small oil showings and gas were met."

The reason put forward ifov the legis-. lation now proposed is an increase in the number of applications for licences to explore for oil, and the desirability of settling' the question of ownership of oil in favour of the Government. While the latter point may be taken for granted,,it is more difficult to see exactly why, at a time when there is great over-production of oil, people should be anxious to make an attempt in England to add to an overcharged market.

Apart from the fact that oil-finding is an exceedingly costly undertaking, ■requiring very specialised men, there arc, to speak from actual experience, many points of difficulty in England from which, less centralised, co\mtries are free,