“FED UP” WITH LIFE

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 146, 17 March 1934, Page 18

“FED UP” WITH LIFE

Mannequin’s Love Tragedy

The fate of a beautiful Irish mannequin. who was disappointed in her love affairs, was inquired into by Mr. Bentley Purchase, the St. Pancras coroner, recently. , The dead woman, Miss Evelyn Blundell, aged 27, was found gassed at a flat, in Nassington Road, Hampstead, N.W. Her home was in Dublin. Miss Janet Bryce, who had shared the flat with Miss Blundell, said that Miss Blundell was due to go to another job on the day she was found dead. Mr. Purchase: Do you know anything about her being engaged?—l knew that the engagement was broken oft. Have you ever known her to be depressed?—She often told me that she was fed up because she had to go towork each morning day after day. I told he , “We’ all have to do that—you are lucky to have work to go to.” Miss Bryce said that when she returned to the flat on Sunday night she found Miss Blundell and "Bob,” her former fiance, in,, the sitting-room. They seempd to be on good tor ms. When she (Miss Bryce) went to bed just before midnight “Bob” was still there. She found Miss Blundell dead in the kitchen the next morning. Stanley Robert Toms, of Parliamenthill, Hampstead, said that he had known Miss Blundell for about 18 months, and was engaged to her for 1months. . . „ . “A week before Christmas, he con-

tinued, “we had parted in rather a row, and when I saw her a month later w’e mutually decided to end the engagement. I saw her on Sunday last and in between.” Mr. Purchase: Was she anxious to continue the engagement?—We had not mentioned it. I was going out on Sunday night The question was then raised as to when we were going to meet again. We decided it was better not to see each other, and to see what happened. How did she seem?—l said something about getting to bed. and she said, "I am not getting up.” I thought she was not taking the new job and was going home Instead, and I asked her what she meant. She said: “You will know to-morrow." I said, “Don’t be absurd. Get to bed and be up in the morning.” As she had spoken like that before I did not take any notice. Did you make any arrangements to meet her again?—No. I was going to telephone to her or go round some tune. Summing up, Mr. Purchase said: “Miss Blundell left two notes, one addressed to her mother and one addressed to Miss Bryce. In both she said she was taking her life, and she gave as the reason disappointment in her love affairs. , “It seems clear that he was more disappointed than she showed. I return a verdict that she took her life while of unsound mind,”