TO BE REOPENED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 17, 20 January 1934, Page 4 (Supplement)

TO BE REOPENED.

DOROTHY WRIGHT CASE.

PARIS APARTMENT MYSTERY. MOTHER'S PERSISTENT WORK. French legal authorities have reopened in Paris the whole tragic case of Miss Dorothy Wright, the beautiful English girl who was found shot dead last August in the hotel apartments in the French capital of M. Roland Coty, the son of the famous perfume millionaire. And behind the announcement of Mr. Louis Gordon, the London solicitor, that a public inquiry will be held in Paris, lies the story of a mother's unceasing light against the verdict that her daughter had committed suicide.

For Mrs. Wright, who lives in Bayswater Road, London, W., and who attended the first inquiry in Paris into her daughter's death, was dissatisfied from the first with the verdict.

Since the inquiry last August she done everything in lier power to vindicate her daughter's name. She refused to believe that Dorothy shot herself with the pearl-handled pistol found at her side.

And she has had Mr. Gordon working almost constantly in an eilort to persuade the Freneli authorities to grant a fresh inquiry into the cireumstanccs surrounding her daughter's death. Now she has succecdcd. An examining magistrate will preside at the new inquiry that lias been ordered. All the witnesses at the first inquiry will be available, and fresh evidence will be called. "Beautiful Butterfly." Dorothy Wright's history makes tragic reading. Known as "The Beautiful Butterfly in the Gold-studded Car," she was weil known as a frequent visitor to the luxurious suite of rooms in the Hotel Gsnric V. kept by M. Roland Coty. She dressed as though she were the heiress to millions, and her name was a popular toast among the smart young men who haunted the gay night resorts of Paris. Her dresses were the talk of even fashionloving Paris. Sometimes she changed her clothes five times a day. The day after the tragedy M. Roland Coty, a married man with three children, made a statement in which lie said that when he arrived witli a man friend at his suite at five in the morning he was surprised to find Miss Wright there.

" I want to Bpeak to you urgently, Roland," she said, according to the statement. Then the millionaire's son heard a click, and before he or his friend could do anything Dorothy had shot herself.

But Mrs. Wright is convinced that her daughter did not kill herself. And so sure is her belief that she has persuaded the French authorities to reopen the case.