HEIRESS DIES OH SHIP

Evening Star, Issue 21077, 14 April 1932, Page 12

HEIRESS DIES OH SHIP

FALSE NEWS OF FIANCE’S DEATH BOSTON, April 2. A bogus cablegram reporting the “death” of her fiance: two legacies that she would soon have received: an inquest ordered in Gibraltar after a steamship company announced that she died at sea of pneumonia—such are the elements surrounding the death of Miss Elizabeth Barrett Cook (20), daughter of one of Boston’s oldest families. She died in the Mediterranean aboard the steamer Chinese Prince—about a week before the date she had set to marry St. George Arnold (29), of Boston. A cablegram was found in her effects advising her that Arnold was dead and she must “on no account return.” The message was signed “ Helen James.” The cablegram was revealed to be a hoax when the girl’s mother received a message of condolence from Arnold, a graduate student of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Arnold awaited the finding of toxicologists, who, he was advised by the State Department, examined the girl’s body. The Chinese Prince has sailed for Boston, and ho will moot the vessel and interview the captain. Ho knows of no one named “ Helen James.”