DEATH HOSE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21266, 21 February 1931, Page 3

DEATH HOSE.

FUMES FROM CAR EXHAUST. GIRL’S TRAGIC END. (From Oub Own Correspondent.) • SYDNEY, February 12. A radio talk with her fiance in London was the prelude to the tragic death at Greenwich, Sydney, on Wednesday of a pretty and brilliant girl, Miss Lindsay Jean 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 hose had been attached to the exhaust pipe of a motor car to direct the fatal carbon monoxide fumes into the car, and Miss Hazelton. who was 26 years of ago, was found dead at the steering wheel. She had been engaged to Mr Robert Green, who is still in London. She 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 she seemed to be in one of her brightest moods, and her sister Elsa said there was not the slightest hint of the tragedy that was to follow. When Elsa left her later she was still happy, 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 car in the garage was running, but when Elsa went to the garage to investigate she found that the door was locked.

Elsa at once obtained the key, and on entering the garage she was shocked to see her sister apparently dead at the wheel. Tire windows and door of the car bad been closed. Assisted by the gardener, she carried her sister out on to tbo lawn. A doctor was summoned, but resuscitation methods failed. An examination of the car by the police revealed an ingenious arrangement for the length of hose so that all the fumes would be certain to enter the car. One end of (be hose was attached firmly to the exhaust. The hose was then fixed under the car and threaded through a bole near the gear lever. The bole was carefully packed with fragments of rag so that none of the fumes would escape. Miss Hazelton was esteemed to, an- extraordinary dogiee in the calm awl rather obscured 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.