FAMOUS BEAUTY'S DEATH.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 92, 18 April 1908, Page 2

FAMOUS BEAUTY'S DEATH.

MYSTERY OF ANONYMOUS LETTERS. c * NEW YORK, Feb. 21. New Ybrk society was profoundly ! stirred this evening by the mysterious death of Mrs William P. Burden, who, las Miss Natica Rives, was famed for | her beauty. j She was discovered in a bedroom in | her magnificent mansion in Fifth Avenue this morning lying dead in bed asphyxiated by gas, which., was escaping with full force from a read-ing-lamp. Not until a •late hour this afternoon was the coroner notified, and mystery still surrounds the case. Mrs Burden was a daughter of Mr 0; H. P. Belmont, who is well-known in Paris and London, as well as" in New York. Her mother, after divorce, married the millionaire, Mr George ■L. Rives. Mrs Burden was the most beautiful and most* popular member of the younger Newport set.- She married Mr Burden nine months ago in spite of the strenuous opposition of her parents, who declared that she was too young. After her marriage she J was intensely annoyed and depressed j by a series of anonymous letters. Mrs Burden was only twenty-two years of age. . - :.