DEATH OF AN ACTRESS.
THE DRUG-TAKING HABIT
LONDON, January 16. The inquest on the body of the actress Billie Carleton, found dead in a West End flat at New Year time, -was resumed. Deveulle, in his evidence, denied giving cocaine to deceased. He first took cocaine in America, but then ceased drug-taking until a few months ago, when he bought some from a Chinese woman and a film actor named Belcher. Witness denied the evidence given by Miss Longfellow that he entered Carleton's bedroom. He merely got his wife's face powder and handed it round as a joke. The coroner commented that this statement was very ingenious, but unconvincing. Dr Stewart, recalled, replying to the coroner, said that Carleton told him that Jack May taught her to smoke opium. May is an American who started Murray's Night Club, where the tango raged in 1913.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3384, 22 January 1919, Page 52
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