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.DEATH DRAMA IN A

ROOM,

UNHAPPY ACTRESS AND "THE LAST STRAW."

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 13,

'PLANE LOST IN A STORM.

PARIS-LONDON FLIGHT

THRILLS.

FRIEND WHO WENT AWAY. PILOT'S 21⁄4HOURS STRUGGLE,

A verdict of suicide while insound mind was recorded

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She had been living with Mr.

Boulogne, July 8. Roberts, and Mr. Roberts' father During the height of the great induced him to go away. This thunderstorm on Wednesday night was probably the last straw. an Imperial Airways machine.

Mr. H. R. Oswald, the Fulham piloted by Capt. McIntosh had (London) Coroner gave this ex most exciting journey from Paris. planation last month of the After a terrible fight with the tradedy of Mrs. Geraldine Wilson, elements, the airman landed at a former actress, who poisoned Berck aerodrome. The fact that herself in her flat in Talgarth Capt. Mcintosh managed to land Road, West Kensington, London, safely is a tribute to his skill and after a conversation on the le-the stability of his machine. The phone.

flight started at Le Bourget at 7 of pm, and a few minutes later the thunderstorm broke. No Mrs. Sweet, the mother of Mrs. lights were visible, and the rain Wilson, who broke down while was torrential. The pilot tried giving evidence, said her daught-to attain visibility at different er was married on June 6, 1913, altitudes, but after flying half an to Percy Douglas Wilson, her hour found he was over the sea, cousin. After the war they se- when he came down to within 100ft. of it. It seemed dangerous parated, and they had not been living together since. He allowed land in such conditions, and

to attempt the orossing to Eng. her £4 a month. The husband Capt. Mcintosh tried to find the obtained a divorce, the co-responFrench coast, which he did just dent being Mr. Roberts, a boarder| at the flat. Mrs, Sweet said she. The wind was then rising and the understood that her daughter was storm was at its height and had going to marry Mr. Roberts. put the wireless installation out

The Coroner-The co-respon of action.

dent left her flat, did he not?

Witness-His father and uncle

50

south of the mouth of the Somme,

Hugging the coast at only about

eame to fetch him away on Wed-150ft. altitude, Capt. McIntosh nesday morning. I opened the passed Berck which was hidden door to those two gentlemen, and the heavy rainfall, and when near Boulogne set out again across they asked for Mr. ·Roberts,

Channel for Lympne. Weather and went upstairs. A Lew minutes afterwards they all came that after a few minutes he turn conditions, however, were so bad dówn, and called a taxi, anded round once more, fearing that went off. Deceased was in the if he could not land at an English flat, and said, "Mother, if I stay aerodrome he might not then have in this fat I shall go mad." She enough petrol to get back. had her coat on, and was in two minutes.

The Tragedy.

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For nearly half an hour" he circled over Boulogne, and finally, by the aid of successive flashes of | lightning, managed to come down Describing the events which at Berck after a2hours fight preceded her daughters' death, with the storm. It needed the Mrs. Sweet said:"She came up-Lefforts of five men to drag the stairs to me, and said, 'Keep machine to shelter, so great was Peggy quiet, mother. I want to the ground velocity of the wind.

phone a minute'. I had the child So bad were the electric dis- on a table watching the trains turbances that for some time Capt. when I heard the 'phone tinkle, Melntoah could not get into com- and a minute afterwards she munication with Croydon owing shrieked out, Mother! Then to receiving, bad shocks. He was heard her tumble. I snatched up finally able to isolate himself the child, ran upstairs, and found from the ground, and, by holding her on the bedroom floor. There the telephone with some insulat was liquid all over her. I tried ing material, succeeded in getting to make her sick, but before to headquarters the news of his could do so the doctor arrived.] safe landing. There were two bottles contain-

ing disinfectant in the room." What is believed to have been a The Coroner then read the fol- tragedy of Jacobite days was un- lowing pencilled note written by earthed recently when two croft- Mrs. Wilson:-

ers, cutting peats on Dava Moor, a wild and lonely spot among the

"Dear Mother-In the event of

anything happening to me owing Morayshire hills, between Forres to this dreadful affair, I leave all

and Grantown, uncovered the

my furniture and belongings to partly clothed skeleton of a man. you. Yours, Gerald."

toilet table.

The arms were pinioned to the Mrs. Sweet said she found this note in another envelops on her body. It is possible that the man may have been one of the large The Coroner-What motive do gang of navvies who were engaged you think she would have for tak-laying the railway line which runs nearly 70 years ing poison-I think it was done near the spot,

on the spur of the moment through go, but the more likely theory is that he was the victim of a this man going away. As he was clan blood feud in the days of going he said:--"Have I any Prince Charlie and the Jacobite money to settle with you?" She rising of 1745. Peat has pre- replied:--"Please don't

servative properties and the cellent condition of a Balmoral bonnet and other clothing on the skeleton is consistent with the

me."

Shock.

insult

Ex-

A woman member of the medi-body having lain in the peat moss

cal staff of the hospital who for 200 years or more.

examined the body said, there was burning of the lips and of the skin on the loft side of the neck and of the front of the chest. Mrs. Wilson died about five minutes after, admission to the hospital. Lysol would be capable) of causing her injuries. Check and syncope due to the swallow- ing of lysol were in witness's opinion, the cause of death.

Roland Charles Roberts, a tall, fair-haired, clean-shaven young man, gave evidence that he was the co-respondent in Mrs. Wilson's. divorce case.

The Coroner-Was there any) engagement on your part to marry hor?-Absolutely none, sir. Tee divorce came to me as a surprise. When I first became acquainted) with her she was at her limit. She used to talk of suicide in those days when she was alone. Out of sympathy I stayed with her.

A verdict was returned A stated;

to the

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