DEAD WOMAN IN CAR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 282, 27 November 1937, Page 16

DEAD WOMAN IN CAR.

STUDENT OF "BLACK MAGIC?" BOOK MAY HOLD KEY TO MYSTERY. (Spcclnl.—By Air Mall.) LONDON, November «. , Blonde 30-year-old Lucy Ward, American woman found dead in a saloon car in a Bedfordshire lane, was, the police believe, a student of "black magic."

In the hired oar in which her body lny, with a rubber tube leading from the exhaust pipe to the interior, was a book dealing with advanced psychology and with the theory of magic.

At the inquest John Short, * Cambridge undergraduate, stated that the dead woman, whose home was in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and who had been in England for nearly a year, was studying English literature and psychology.

He spoke of her intense interest in psychology, said that she was an ardent student, and took an unusual interest in the subject. Then he told the coroner, whose Court was sitting in the parlour of the one hotel at Stageden—close to where she was found—that she was one of the most cheerful persons he had known. Police investigating the mystery of her death believe that the hook found in the car mipht hold the solution. The inquest was adjourned. Miss Ward's body is to be taken back to America for interment.