GIRL’S DEATH

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 February 1931, Page 10

GIRL’S DEATH

FUMES FROM CAR EXHAUST.

SYDNEY, February 12

A radio telephone talk with her fiance in Loridon vvas the prelude to the tragic death at Greenwich; Sydney, on Wednesday of a pretty and; brilliant girl, Miss Lindsay. Jan Hazelton. The 12,000 miles conversation resulted in the breaking off ; of her engagement. This caused her to worry, she became depressed-, and then followed an extraordinary denouement. Miss Hazelton was found dead in the garage at the home of her aunt; A hoso had- been attached- to the- exhaustpipe of a. motor car to direct the fatal carbon monoxide fairies into- the car, and Miss Hazelton, who was 26 years of age, was found dead, at the steering wheel. She had been engaged to a man who is now in' London.- Siie excelled in various branches of art, and just before her death she had been engaged' on a delightful' etching of herself. She was on; the staff* of the teachers’ training college at the University of Sydney. On Tuesday night Miss Hazelton seemed to be in one of- her brighter. moOds, and- her sister, Elsa, said liiere was not the slightest hint- of tlie. tragedy that was to follow. When Elsa left her later she was still happj and'said it was her intention to clean out the garage. Five hours later Elsa returned home and there was no- sign of her sister. The engine of the car in the garage was running, but w*hen Elsa went to the garage to investigate she found that the door was lovked;

Elsa at once obtained' the key ,and on entering the garage she was shocked to see her sister apparently dead at the wheel. The windows and door of the car had been closed. Assisted by the gardener, she carried her sister on to the lawn. A doctor was summoned, but resuscitation methods failed. An examination of the car by the police revealed an ingenious arrangement of the length of h'bSe so that all cho fumes would'be certain to enter the car. One end of the hose was attached firmly to the exhaust. The hose was then fixed under the car and threaded' through a hole near the gear lever. The hole was carefully packed with fragments of ra.g so that none of' (lip fumes would escape. Miss Hazelton was esteemed to an extraordinary degree .in he calm anti, rather obscure neighbourhood in which she lived. Her death in such extraordinary circumstances came ,as a great shock to a very wide circle. She was pretty, vivacious, and' extremely popular;