A MYSTERY SOLVED.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13009, 10 January 1908, Page 7

A MYSTERY SOLVED.

FATE OF A SYDNEY LADY.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copy righ t-. (Received January 9th, 10.10 p.m.) LONDON, January 9The police are satisfied that the body of the woman found on October 10th, in "SVroxall Woods, Goring, is that of a Sydney lady who disappeared in May during a state of depression, owing to alleged stoppage of her allowance. A relation identified a gold studded haircomb found on the body, and two lady acquaintances identified a silver buckle on the clothes. DeatJi is attributed to an overdose of morphia. A hypodermic syringe was found on the body. The '''Daily Mail" states th«t the body is that of Mrs Dolly Scott Harden, reported to be the wife of a Sydney solicitor. A friend of hers says she tried and failed to earn her living by her pen and the stage, and that riio took morphia to relievo acute neuralgia. A friend received a letter from her on May Oth, stating that she intended to commit suicide, as she was terribly -depressed, and was reluctant to live upon her friends or on charity.

An extraordinary mystery Las startled tho small riverside resort of Goring-on-Thamos, anil is baffling the Oxfordshire, police (said tlio ''Daily Express" of Octoiber Wth). In> a donso wood whore the gaino is strictly preserved, and which little, frequented liy strangers, tho Ixxly of an unknown woman hoe been found. The costume "which she was •wearing, and which had homo tho brunt of many months of storm, was sucJi as only a woman of means could afford. It was of blue, sergo, lined with costly silk, while, tho hat -was largo, ana ornamented by fen them tliat had swept over tho crmviv. Tho ehooe -were of patent leather, and the romnante oi" hor other garments indicated a fondness for comfort and fashion. But more, convincing still was her jewellery. A crescent-shaped' brooch set with eight stonos rested upon her breast, and three hair comibs, one ornamented with 18-carat gold, liad fallen to tho ground. liy tiioir eide rested a gold-headed hatpin, while some little distance away there wae found tho remnant of a blue silk waistband, from which had fallan a silver clasp. This clasp ia elaborately ornttmented with tho embossed iieure of a woman and two children. There was a chatelaine puree with steel chain containing a halfpenny, and from the pooket of a, clo»k thor* had droppod a leather purse, in which were- a florin, a shilling, thrre. pennies, a halfpenny, and two farthings. ihe solution of the problem of the woman's identity hoe in four clues.—(l) The counterfoil or a postal order for ton shillings, which bears the number I. 087376. (2> The laundry mark * s.. or 45, worked m black cotton in the corner of a dainty handkerchief., (3) A hypodermic syringe, the point of which was broken (4) Pwo teeth stopped with gold.