INVENTOR DIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 283, 29 November 1937, Page 3

INVENTOR DIES.

DRAMATIC INQUEST.

FOUND IN A SHELTER.

"GOOD-BYE, UTTLE PRINCESS"

(Special.—By Air Mall.)

LONDON, November 10.

Two women figured in a dramatic scene at the inquest on 32 years old Charles Sidney Way, the death-day inventor, at Clacton-on-Sea.

His body was found in a shelter, and the verdict was that he met his death by shooting himself while the balance of his mind was disturbed. Dark-haired young Mrs. Rachel Kureen, of Vicarage Gardens, Clacton, who said she was proprietress of the Majestic Hotel. Clacton, was asked by Mrs. Edith Grant, of Cranston Road, S.K.. Way's sister: "Did you accompany my brother on his last cruise »"' When Mrs. Kureen replied, "No," Mrs. firatit, who was weeping, cried, "You did. you did. When he came hack lie showed me a photograph of himself with you in the boat.'' Here Mrs. Kureen's solicitor. Mr. ,T. (!. I'otcl. interrupted with, "This Court has only to find out the cause of this man's death. It is not a Court of morals." Police constable James Maynard said that in Way's possession was a note on which was. "R.K., 21 Vicarage Gardens. Good-bye. little princess. 1 have kept my promise." Mrs. Grant said Way had a wife, from whom he was living apart, and a child. She knew he had two children by another woman, Miss Mabel Barker. Mrs. Kureen said at the end of .Inly Way stayed at her hotel for about two weeks. "Then T found.that he was a married man. T told him I did not want to have anything to do with him." About 11.20 p.m. „n a Saturday she saw Way in a shelter. He shouted to her: "I am not fooling. I am serious.'" Dr. Davy, of Clacton, said he found Way lying with a pistol bv his side. He had been dead f.,r about an hour, and certainly not more than three The deputy coroner (Mr. S. Nicholson) Mid Mrs. Way had at first said she did not wish to attend the inquest, but later sent a telegram saying she would reach < lacton that night.