AN ACTRESS' DEATH.
EVIDENCE AT INQUEST. London, Jan. 10. The inquest on the actress Billie Carlton, who wag found dead in a VYeat End flat at the New Year, was resumed. Deveulle, in his evidence, denied giving cocaino to deceased. He first took cocaine in America, then ceased until a few months ago, when ho bought some from a Chinese woman and a. iilm actor named Belcher. Witness denied the evidence given by Miss Longeflow that he entered Miss Carlton's bedroom. He merely got his wife's powder, and handed it round as a joke. The coroner commented on this statement as very ingenious, hut unconvincing. ])r Stewart, recalled, replying to the coroner, said Miss Carlton told him that "Jack May taught her to smoke opium," May is the American who started Murray's night Club where the tango craze raged in 1913. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 January 1919, Page 2
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144AN ACTRESS' DEATH. Taranaki Daily News, 21 January 1919, Page 2
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