A WEALTHY WIDOW

Evening Star, Issue 19387, 22 October 1926, Page 5

A WEALTHY WIDOW

DEATH OF MRS VETCH BODY POORLY NOURISHED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 20. The ‘Daily Mail' states that_ Mrs Vetch’s fortune is e-slimated at LAjO,000/ , , , . It was revealed at the inquest, at which a verdict of death from natural causes was returned, that the body was poorly nourished and neglected. A doctor gave evidence that Mrs Vetch was subject to heart disease. In his opinion she was overtaken by an attack while climbing the stairs and fell, fracturing her skull. George Tinline Bnddcn. a nephew, gave evidence I hat the deceased was a very si rong-w ilh’il woman, and re'■■mited ativ irtl.-rfcrenee in her affairs. i(o was powerle-.s to do anything in her intcrcsU. It is ot iinah'd that ilm furniture and art treasure 1- in the house are of the value of ViO.iHlO. I A queer drama of Loudon life was .-mealed by ih 1 (lcat)i of Mrs Janeiro Velcli. a wiahhy widow of a British gmmral, v. ho v, as found lying on a Vi.airv-ay at is r mansion near Hyde fhuk, having siiceumbeil to an apopleouc hi. Tiic heauiifiil .Six-storicd home, containing twmiiy-live rooms, laid become known im ihe ‘‘ Mystery Man,hm,’’ because from the outbreak of j ho war it had Mood empty and neglected. vith it'- magnificent- furniture diisl-coated and decaying. Mrs Vetch iiiysterionHy relumed from the Continent last year, and ordered the rt> lecoration of the house. This was pro-■■r-eding when the workmen found the liudv. During her twelve years* ab-auc-o Mrs \’i !eh regularly paid the sales, amounting to ,f2‘ 10 a year. Mrs Vetch, who was aged c ighty-six, was a laughter of .Mr Ge»r;;e Tinlinc, a promiiient Adelaide h-nicer of many years ago, and a cousin ol Sir George Mnr’■ay, ('hief dust ice of H'<ulh Australia, .-•he. was in Kuro)ie at the outbreak of the war, nursing her son, and she did 10L return to Ivigland till last year. Her husband , who was a British'general, died a quarter of a, century ago.]