ACTRESS’ DEATH

Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1932, Page 6

ACTRESS’ DEATH

GRIEF AT HUSBAND'S SUICIDE,

WOUNDS WERE -SELF INFLICTED

■(United Press Association—By Electric 5- ■ • Telegraph—Copyright.)

(Received this day at 11.15 a.m.) UONDON, September 6.

Tile ’ actrees, Helen' Sjtfntsb'ury, widow of the late Mr F. W. Rutherford, was Ifouid ' shot dead, clad ; in ah evening dress, on the floor otf her West End flat. A charwoman said, that Mrs; (Rutherford was deeply grieved at her Husband’s suicide, -and Whfeantly' read dvis tetters, also 'her diary recording Honeymoon incidents. Her wounds p|ere' eeM 1 'inflicted. fill-'' '• -—— London message on August 3, stated ;e— '

Captain Buckley Rutherford, aged thirty-four, son of the (late 'Sir Ernest Victor Buckley Rutherford, and husband of 'Helen Salisbury, the actress, was found dead in ibis dress clothes at the wheel of his C&J .on a lonely , r oad at Micbeldever, the lights burning. A workman discovered the tragedy in the, morning. Ho saw terrible 'head wounds, and a. German service revolver' with, a chamber discharged In the, car. Rutherford married Miss Saintsbury after her return from Australia in March. His first wife, Monica Burriand, divorced' him, ■White Miss Saintsbury divorced her first husband, Edgar Norfolk. Deceased recently seemed worried.