LOVED TOO MUCH

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12527, 12 April 1935, Page 5

LOVED TOO MUCH

DEATH. OF TWO JEWISH Women refugeesONE VICTIM'S HOPELESS INFATUATION; SOICJD.E BY POISON. (U.P.A. by Elec. Tel.-Copyright) LONDON, A pi. 10. At the inquest concerning the deaths of Dora Fabian and Matilda Wui'in, it was revealed that the women recently were granted £2-5 from the Jewish refugees fund'. A post mortem examination shoved that death Avars due to narcotic poison i ng. Car? Korseh, a. German doctor of laws, gave evidence that Fran Fabian helped him with, economic writ mgs. She urged him to occupy a spare room in the flat as a lodger, but lie refused because he was married. and preferred working alone. Tlio refusal upset Frau Fabian AA'ho tried to detain, him at the last meeting, when he had to wrench his arm a way in order to leai'e. A. German shorthand note was found in the flat addressed to Korseh. It read: ‘T loved you too much I take wit}] me the o»y person in whom I am interested.” Korseh eddeq that Frau Fabian was following the Wesemann case, and was afraid that she would not bq permitted to remain in England because sbe was mixed up in European polities. The coroner commented that there was no difficulty in that connection and Returned a verdict of suicide while of unsound' mind. Dora Fabian, aged 36, a German, doctor of philosophy, who was divorced from her husband, a doctor in Benin, and .Matilda Wurm, -56. wife of the former People’s Commissar during the German revolution of 1918 were found dead last week in a room, on the top floor of a house m Bloomsbury, London. A hottla believed to have contained poison, was near the bodies and a- mass of c-or respcndence in various languages was strewn over the floor. Fran Fabian formerly was secretary to amember of the Reichstag and to the Minister of Justice in Prussia. A German resident in London stated that the two women had been trying to trace the gang which was thought to have, assisted in the kidilapping of Ahc- German journa list, Berthold J a celt from. Switzerland. Also tlie- were inquiring regarding Hans Weismann. the Nazi journalist who was arreste,) by the Swiss authorities. Other Germans stated that the women were seeking the headquarter? of a spy organisation established in London to watch German refugees.