Show 1 SIREN POWER To rO CHARM GONE FACE i I J oJ I Notorious British ess s Slays Self When hen New Husband Tires J. J By Robert Welles elles Ritchie S Service MIc Staff Stoff Corre rr Dt 1 SI Special IDI Cable Dispatch London July Julf 12 l Mrs Ath- Ath known also as as 11 Arthur luul I idled filed from a L gunshot wound Inflicted at a L time of at unsound mind Such was the verdict rendered by a coroners coroner's Jury after the inquest Into tie death of or one of oe the most beautiful and adventurous wreckers home s EnI Eng Eng- and land and the world world haS has known While witnesses were heard the Ute coroner coroner cor- cor oner over Interrupted to read a brief extract m ft rem m Im a n handsomely-bound handsomely leather diary kept by Mrs Atherton At a n. recent recen t date she had written I am horrified at my looks looks- I look Jook Thus the dead womans woman's own thoughts hosts ghosts of ot her weeks of ot mortification agony came agony came back to plead with the he coroners coroner's court for tor a Just compre compre- of ot a womans woman's soul o j Tho Inquest room was filled to ca- ca parity and a largo large cro crowd d stood without awaiting the verdict verdict- Fas Fashionably dressed women were numero numerous s amon among t tho to b e cro crowd d 4 I Z have nO never er known a a. woman man to destroy tf herself with a Do n. n it Is very ery unusual These words b by Dr Edw Edward d Price Furber perhaps unconsciously revealed f one rarie e of the flaming laminG sign posts of tem tem- em- em psychology before Coroner Ingleby Ingle Ingle- by Eby inquest 9 In the tho midst of tawdry revelations ef CIt tho once onca beautiful womans woman's heartbreak heart- heart break reak when she discovered that her with tho the man sh she sha was passionately pas- pas j devoted to was rendered far- far cal even evon on their honeymoon oc- oc this dry scientific observation of j-of Ot of tho the physician sufficient to illumine the whole tragedy Here was a woman who reigned o over er l 1 f a v UA ia w u uy J uca UL UC 10 ua n c- c ty eight years who had Imperiously 4 wrecked mens men's d destinies on three eo con- con by that same samo purely feminine i failure and who suddenly faced the thet t f grim truth proved by the discovery of ot what she sho t believed to be her young J J. J husbands husband's Intrigue with a woman oman of ot only 2 her 24 ner power to reign through y anty was ever gone bone Injunction So Mrs Atherton remembered the grim Crim old Biblical injunction If It thine eye CO offend theo then pluck It out cut Though possessing a revolver er she sho deliberately determined to destroy through erasure that shell of or a once SIT Tr charm which had played leer ber also faleo In n the the- end So a shotgun un barrel laM laid against her hel cheek and a a. groping bare toe toe- on the tho trigger sho snuffed out ant her adventure adventure- e- e life Ute It K was found ont om In n the the- evidence to to- day that a portion of the womans woman's was was' found sticking to the tho cell cell- ing The final act of or the re revolt olt against the fatal endowment of or conquering all allbut allbut but time was terrifically complete The Tho Earl of at March larch heir hell to tho the Duke Due of Richmond wheeled Into the inquest room In n an Invalids Invalid's chair and Edith Lane ladys lady's maid to the tho dead woman represented the social extremes attending at tending the Inquest From each cacho bit by bit the story ol of the proud womans woman's bitter love lo nemesis was ns built up and the tragedy of ot how the power she had relied on for so flO many years ears of ot conquest had utterly failed d her at last was woven through the testimony A letter Jetter contained tho the hearted broken-hearted beautys beauty's last message to the husband i iwho who had scorned her It was I I shall trouble you ou no more I cannot cannot can can- can I not live without you rou 1 |