WOMAN GAMBLER'S END.

Shannon News, 29 October 1924, Page 4

WOMAN GAMBLER'S END.

SEQUEL TO MONTE CARLO LOSSES. VERONAL DEATH ON CLIFF. Wealth, a pleasant life in a Thames Valley village, travel, marriage, the gaming tables of Monte Carlo, poverty and death sketch briefly the life story of a Mrs Leveson-Browne, who was found dying from the effects of veronal poisoning on the cliffs at Budieigh. diylterton, Devonshire. Alter, exhaustive inquiries by the police, her history was disclosed. When the woman, elderly and shabbily dressed, was found on the cliffs there was nothing to indicate her identity. Then the police discovered a scrap of paper with the address, “Blenheim, St. Margaret’s.” Upon that they were able to build up the story of the woman, who was found to be a relative of a peer.

She was the widow of Mr J. G. Browne, of Bombay, but at St. Margaret’s, near Twickenham, she was better known as Miss C. A. Lermitte, the . niece of a Mrs Jennings, who died thirty years ago and left her all her fortune. Mrs Jennings lived at Blenheim, St. Margaret’s, a large house standing in its own grounds, not far from the station,; and Miss Lermitte, then an orphan of about 10, ■went to live there in the early 70’s. Bijief Wedded Life. She spent a merry girlhood a'ad developed into, an attractive, woman Then Mrs Jennings died. There was no shortage of money, but Miss Lermitte seemed to grow tired of entertaining. About this time people associated with her 'noticed that she was strange at times, “just,” said oire who knew her intimately, “as if she had been taking drugs or drinking heavily. “She joined a woman’s club in London, aid spent a lot of her time there, sleeping at Blenheim only two or three nights a week. About five years ago she decided to travel and .went out to India. She camje back, after about eighteen months as Mrs LevesonBrowne, and told me that she had married in Bombay, but that her husband had died after six months. “She decided to sell Blenheim, and when she found a purchaser she brought three large trunks to me and asked me to take care of them while she went abroad. “I am Ruined.” “About live months ago she came back to St. Margaret’s, and told me: ‘I am ruined. I want to get one or two things'out of my boxes so that Ij can raise money.’. She took some things away, including old-fashioned jewellery, winch I understood were heir100ms she had received from a grea£aunt, a peeress* She also borrowed money, promising to repay it. ' “A Tittle later she turned up again, more distressed than ever, and decided to sell her last lot of shares. These realised about *6O. She returned the money she had borrowed, and said she was going- away to Folkstone. The next I heard \v as mat she was found dying- in Devonshire.” A coroner’s jury found that. Mrs Leveson-Browne died from an overdose of veronal, and returned a verdict accordingly.