SENSATIONAL TRAGEDY
Society Lady Commits Suicide
(A. and N.Z. Cable.)
LONDON, July 10
A &eins'atk)fn.aH West End tragedy was disocKv^red to-day. Mrs. A'therton, a famous society beauty, divorced in 1906, was found dead in her bedroom, with, a part of her • head blown away. - A sporting gum was found oni the floor, and the door had been barn--1 cadedi. Mrs. Atherton recently married Captain Eliot, grandson of Earl St. Germans, but the couple separated as t!he result of e&trar.ge- : merit causing her depression.. I Apparently she placed the butt i.f J the gun on the floor, 'and pre 'sea the trigger with her foot. iSiie left letters indicating that shs con- , tempiated suicide. M"rs. Atherton's maid heard her . mistress etiiter the flat and tlien heard the report of the grin. She , called a doctor, a,nd they found Mrs ', Atherton dead, wearing .an e?eij:ng dress and paarl .necklace. Her. husj ba,nd collaboaiajted watih CaiiDftiafini ! Bi-uce BairnsfatJier in ' the play, ; "The Better 'Ole." '
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Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13934, 12 July 1919, Page 5
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161SENSATIONAL TRAGEDY Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13934, 12 July 1919, Page 5
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