ECCENTRIC SISTERS

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 April 1929, Page 3

ECCENTRIC SISTERS

SILENT FOR 35 YEARS.

Disclosures concerning two sisters who lived in a house at Streatham, for 35 years, never spoke to the neighbours. had never been out for three years, and died within a few weeks of each other, were made at an inquest at Brixton on February 20, on the younger sister, Miss Emma Eugene Roth, aged 67, says a London newspaper. It was stated that Miss Maria Roth, aged 70, died suddenly oil January 10, and was buried under a coroner’s order.

Mr Frederick William Weston, solicitor, said that he had acted for Miss Emma Roth for 20 years. “I saw her 20 yeal’s ago,” lie said, “apd then did not see her again until the end of last year. She seemed strange after her sister’s death, and I put it down to shock. She had £2OO a year. The sisters left cross wills. They told me that they had no relatives, so that now both are dead the Treasury will benefit.” The Coroner, Mr Douglas Cowburn: She is said to have been eccentric. Mr Weston: She had not been out of the house for three years prior to her sister’s death. Mr Weston added that the will was locked in a safe in the woman’s bedroom. Mrs Louise Cannon, a neighbour, .said that she had known about the sisters for 35 years. They were always looked on as eccentric, and would not mix or speak with anybody. She saw the elder sister go out three years ago. She informed the police when she noticed that the blinds of the house, which had been drawn at 7.30 every morning regularly for many years, remained undrawn and the milk had not been taken in. A police sergeant described how he got through a window and found Miss Roth dead on the floor. He saw in another room a heap of parcels containing toys, which were apparently ready to be posted. The coroner returned a verdict of “death from natural causes.” >