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PLIGHT OF RUSSIAN PRINCESS. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and NJZ. Cable Association.) LONDON, July 8. There was a distressing disclosure at the Westminster Coroner’s inquest on Mrs Sylvia Pearion, aged 62. She and a male old-aged prisoner occupied a tiny room at Mayfair. Both were ragged and dirty and unable to pay the rent of 16/- weekly. The landlady kept them for a year, after which the rent was paid weekly. They lived on potatoes and scrape of food supplied by the landlady. They were virtually hermits, no one being allowed to enter the room, which was in the filthiest condition. It is believed they never undressed or washed. They regularly received letters from Russia. The letters were heavily crested and addressed to Princess Odoff. The woman was highly cultured. The Coroner, in returning a verdict of death from natural causes, said deceased was obviously a Russian aristocrat, living in the most horrible circumstances.
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Southland Times, Issue 19292, 10 July 1924, Page 5
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