DEATH FROM DRUGS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 676, 31 October 1933, Page 7

DEATH FROM DRUGS

BRITISH GIRL AND PRINCE INVOLYED IN SCANDAL. REVELRY ON BOAT. Paris, August 17. Elaborate precautions have been taken by the police here to hush up the scandal in which an English girl and a Balkan Prince were involved night of gaiety on a river houseboat. Ethel Ogden was the name the girl gave at her hotel, although there is reason t0 believe it was not her real name and that she is connected with a highly placed British family. It was early this month that the girl, wh'o was undoubtedly beautiful, arrived in Paris. She was visited at her -hotel by a man generally referred to as "Monsieur le Prince," who gave an address in one of the Balkan states. The couple first met two years ago when the girl was on a visit to Paris with her fiance. The girl was taken by the Princo to ariverside resort on the Seine, where days and nights were passed in revelry on board a houseboat named The Albanian. On the night of the tragedy the girl arrived on the houseboat just before midnight. Two hours later the Prince came ashore in an agitated state and asked for a car to take the girl to hospital. Instead, she was taken back to the hotel ih the heart of Paris, but when she arrived there she was unconsci- , ous, and she died before morning. The autopsy shows that death was due to an Eastern drug and that the mystery girl had been an addict for some years before. her death. 'Immediately her death was report- ; ed, police officers went to the houseboat, but the Prince had disappeated. Then began an amazing attempt by

the police to hush up the whole. affair. All infonnation was refused to the Pre'ss, and at the hotel where the girl had been staying it was bluntly denied that anything was known of her though I and others had seen her body earried Into the hotel when she Was dying, and had seen it removed for transport. ,to Etngland after the arrival of her parents.