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Hokitika Guardian, 24 September 1926, Page 1

BARONESS’S SUICIDE. NEW YORK, August 1. After/writing a note. “We die happily as we 'have lived together,” the Baroness Eoyoo Garrett, a Russian opera singer, committed suicide yesterday l>v jumping out of a window on tile 17th floor of Everglades Hotel, Miami. Florida. Later in the day the police discovered her husband in a thicket some miles from Miami. He had read about his wife’s suicide in a newspaper and was attempting to end his life with a small piece of twine. The couple were in indigent circumstances. They arrived here two years ago from South Africa, whither they had gone after escaping from the Bolshevik' regime in Russia. They were detained at Ellis Island, where the Barbness sang for the immigrants, and they were ultimately released when assurances were given that she would be able to support her husband, who has only one leg and has a lung seared from poison gas. The Baroness explained that her husband lost a fortune of £2,000,000 by the Russian revolution. Concert engagements, which at first were plentiful, recently failed to materialise and the couple found themselves facing a growing mountain of debt,