Baroness Found Dead

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31255, 30 December 1966, Page 9

Baroness Found Dead

(N.Z. Pres* Ann.—CoppriflhO BROKEN HILL, Dec. 29. Police said today a 50 - year * old woman found dead on Monday was a German baroness. Inspector M. Whelan said the woman was Baroness Bruny Erika Heckle Zu Putliz, who had been in the district for about the last six weeks living in a canvan at the town’s canvan park. He said he believed she came from Hamburg, where she bad relatives. The District Public Trustee, Mr R. Musgroye, had been in

touch with Germany, and was handling all burial arrangements, the inspector said. Inspector Whelan said that although there was some doubt as to the cause of the woman’s death, police did not suspect foul play.

The baroness had apparently been dead some days. The body had decomposed because of the great summer heat Inspector Whelan said the issue of a death certificate had been held up pending the mult of a post-mortem examination. Certain samples have been sent to Sydney for examination by Government analysts. The baroness had no relatives in Australia. Her body

would be sent to Adelaide, 300 miles to the south-west, for cremation.

The remaina were to be returned to Germany. The baroness’s caravan and her car were bought recently in Australia. She intended to establish herself as an Interior decorator somewhere in Australia.

Inspector Whelan said she told a journalist friend here that she had for 24 years headed a leading firn of interior decorators in Hamburg. Among her clients had been Greek shipping magnates Aristotle Onassis and Stavros Niarchos, the German industrialists, Alfried Krupp. Baron Von Thyssen, and the publisher. Axel Springer.