FALL TO DEATH

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 March 1930, Page 10

FALL TO DEATH

—■ LONDON HOTEL TRAGEDY. LONDON, March 9. Mrs Pearl de Maret, a typist attached to the American Naval Delegation, who shared a bedroom on the sixth floor of the Mayfair Hotel with Miss Hurley Fisk, one of the secretaries to the delegation, fell out of her bedroom window crashing to the roof of a ballroom 75ft. below’. She was tak--en to hospital, where she died. Deceased w r as one of Mr H. L, Stimson’s personal stenographers, and was principally concerned with the conference preliminaries. When these were settled she decided to accept an invitation to the typists to return home as soon as they wished, as she w r as homesick and desired to sec her husband and her one-year-old son, residing in Washington. Mrs de, Maret completed her work yesterday, and should have sailed for America to-day. She was a recipient of many presents from the delegation and a bouquet from Mrs Stimson. Miss Fisk says she was out of the bedroom for 10 minutes. When she returned, the window’ was open and Mrs de Maret had disappeared. Mrs de Maret recently had complained of dizziness, and it is believed that, seeking fresh air, she overbalanced am! fell.