ACTRESS' DEATH
TRAGIC CIRCUMSTANCES LONELINESS AND WORRY LONDON, Sept. 9 The inqueßt into the death of the English actress, Miss Helen Saintsbury, widow of Capta : n E. B. Rutherford, who was found dead in his motor-car last month, closed with a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind. The coroner described Miss Sa'ntsbury's death as a "tragedy of loneliness," due to her widowhood causing mental distress, coupled with insomnia and some financial anxiet'es. The evidence showed that her husband's suicide had preyed on her mind.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21285, 12 September 1932, Page 10
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