WOMAN’S STRANGE DEATH
GASSED IN KITCHEN - EX-WIFE OF WILL ROGERS SYDNEY, Dec. 21. The body of Mrs. Elinor Hunter, aged 51, was found in remarkable circumstances in her flat in Birriga road, Bellevue Hill, last night. It is believed that she had been dead since last Thursday. Death had been caused by asphyxiation. Apparently, while she was walking in her kitchen, the belt of her dressing-gown caught in a tap of the gas stove, and she fell in such a position that she was unable to move. Her weight turned on the gas and she was asphyxiated. The police declare that Mrs. Hunter was born in Philadelphia, U.S.A., and that she was formerly the ’wife of the late Will Rogers, the American actor and humorist, who was killed in a plane accident in Alaska in 1935. This could not be confirmed last night from records available in Sydney. Biographies of Will Rogers state simply that he married Betty Blake of Arkansas (U.S.A.). N The police state that Mrs. Hunter’s second husband was the late Lieut.Commander Hunter.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19824, 29 December 1938, Page 5
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