MR. JAMES WHITE'S LORD DEWAR ON LOVELY]
SUICIDE. :
PRUSSIC ACID AND CHLOROFORM.
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·TRAGIC NOTE TO DOCTOR:-
In the expensive and tastefully furnished dining-room, at Foxhill, near Swindon, Mr. A. L. Forres "ter, coroner for North Wiltshire, opened the inquest on Mr. James White, the financier, who found dead in his bedroom at Foxhill.
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Foxhill is a palace of silver, Every fitting in the house, including the water-pipers in the bathroom and the taps in the servanta 'quar- ters, are of silver.
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HE SEES MORE AND MORE OF HER EVERY YEAR."
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Lord Dowar, that wonderful old millionaire (perhaps billionaire- many think so), has been saying things again about women. Among his recent opigrams is: "Many a man has been wrecked upon a per- manent wave."
"In woman's smile," he de
we find more sublimity dares, than in a sunset, more pathos tann on a battlefield, more warmth & wa in a noonday sun and more love than words can tell."
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But he thinks some of the modern dance steps are fantastic." They Mr. O. L. Richardson, a solietör, make people act as if a beokive had represented the widow.
. The first witness was Major Valentine Stevens Bland, of The -Warren, Aldbourne, Wiltshire, who described himself na estate, agant for Mr. White and a farmer on his
account. OWD
White's You
name was James.
Mr. Forrester: Plain James 7- Yei.
What was his description 7
Major Bland paused for some time and then glanced at Mr. Richardson, who replied for him:
A financier, I think."
How News Was Broken, Mr. Forrester: When did you come to know of his death-About one o'clock on Wednesday.
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Broadcasting was mentioned in the Bible. Does it not say that You were informed by a servant, Adam gave a spare part that de I suppose -The head gardener. | veloped into a loud-speaker ?” He came over to me and said, "Do you know Mr. White came last night?" I said, "No, I did nos know he was in the place." He said, Mr. White came last night and he is dead. I came straight away down here. I asked the housekeeper if she had tele phoned the police, and a few minutes after I arrived the police
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Mr. Richardson: After you had made certain inquiries you rang up Mr. White's London office just before two o'clock 1-I think it would be either half-past one or quarter to two.
That was the first intimation so far as you know that Mr. White's office had of his death 1-Yes, so far
a I know.
Miss Dors Dore, the housekeeper, said: "We had orders from Mr. White that he would not want his breakfast until about twelve. It was rather unusual, because" what- ever time he stayed in bed he al- ways had breakfast at 8.30.
"I saw him in his bedroom the night before. He was standing by the table in his trousers and shirt, without collar or tie." He asked her for come notepaper, which the fetched.
On that
White Occasion Mr. learnt for the first time that no man slept on the premises and he ordered, her (the witness) to that the footmar slept there ia
future.
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picked up Mr. Waite at the office door of Daly's Theatre and had orders to go home-to-Park-street
Did you go to Park-street 1-Ng. We had gone less than 200 yards when Mr. White said, "Have you and he said, "Very well, we will plenty of petrol" I said, "Yes," go on to Foxhill."
Did he scern ordinary He seern- ed the same as he always was.
The butler, William Charles He said that after a mea) Mr. George Williams, was next called. White said: "Leave me alone. Do not worry about me, Williams, Leave me alone, everything is all right." Some time later he gave instructions that all the servants except the witness were to go to the theatre at Swindon in his car and at his expense.
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Dr. Bobert Beatty said when he entered the room where Mr. White chloroform. was lying it smelt strongly ofONSIGNEES are hereby informed that their Goods with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables are being landed and stored into the Go- downs of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd, Kowloon,THE MOLAVAN PRINCE whence Delivery may be obtained in mediately after Landing
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bis face. It was smelling strong- ly of chloroform and was still wet.
Mr. White was lying on his left side, holding the sponge close to his mouth and nose. On a table beside him lay a chloroform bottle almost half empty.
He subsequently made a post On Wednesday," Miss Dave mortem examination and in his said, we waited until 12.06 p. opinion death was due to chloroform and then, as Mr. White bad not poisoning. come down and did not respond to
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Dr. Albert P. Macnamara, the footman's knock or to our ring-local practitioner and a personal ing on the telephone from the friend of Mr. White, was handed a pantry, I said we must go up and letter addressed to him in Mr. see what was the matter.
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White's hand-writing. It was writ tea upon the back of an envelope and it ran:
Go easy with me, old man.
I
am dead-dead from prussic noid. No need to cut any deeper.-. JIMM
"We knocked for 10 minutes without result and I then tried to open the door, but I could not. tried to get a key to fit it but fail- ed. I told the footman "We ahali have to force the door open with something. We got a piece of old iron and tried to lever the door Dr. Macnamara stated that he open without success, and we then believed Mr. Waite had naked the gardener to fetch a ladder medicinal prussic acid and appar- so that we could look in through the window. When the ladder arrived I went up it myself and, pulling down the window, drew
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ently it had not killed him. He Barometer... had then taken chloroform, which Temperaturs was the cause of his death.
Mr. Richardson: Mr. White was "very highly strung man 1-Yea. He was highly nervous
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"Mr. White was lying on the bed, but did not answer. I scram
Mr. Richardson: As you know, Weather ...
Rein bied through the window and he had dealings with large proper walking over to the bed, touched ties involving enormous sums and hun on the forehead. He was quite he had a lot to worry him. Do you cold and seemed to be dead. I consider he was quite a normal went back to the window and enll-man-No. You can never call that B-Blus aky; C-Cloudy; D- ed to the footman, I believe he is type of genius normal dead. I noticed several bottles on the table, but bottles had been there on previous occasions."
Mr. Forrenter: Did he have several bottles in his bedroom 7 Yea But I had nothing to do with waiting on him personally. The butler did that I never went to his bedroom.
Police-Sergeant Hatchman said he was called to the house about 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday:
Producing sume bottles he found in the bedroom, Sergeant Hatch man said: These two," pointing to two small, brown-coloured bot tles, "I found on a table beside the bed. The larger one is labelled chloroform; the other had no lebel-
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In his summing up." Mr. Forres- ter said two letters had been left behind by Mr. White, one for his wife and one to Dr. Matnamara. The doctor's letter had been read-standard because it bore on the cause of AA death, but the letter to his wife did not, and he saw no reason why it should be read." It is not my property and it is not yours. It is addressed to Mr. White's wife.
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On another table in the bedroom & verdict that Mr. White met his Mar. 1021 13m 4 33.
I found this bundle of papers. I death by chloroform poisoning self- found another bottle this wee fall, administered during temporary but contained no label. There was insanity.
small quantity of dark liquid
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otherwise they will not be recognized Mr. Forrester: Instead of " tem- Wed 31.07.2038 -19 5 25 2:0- porary instanity" we will say Thur. 4m 1.5643m 652 35 The next witness was George when insane." There is no tem-
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