WOMAN'S MYSTERY DEATH

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 498, 21 July 1932, Page 5

WOMAN'S MYSTERY DEATH

SYDNEY INVESTIGATIONS SYDNEY, July B—lf, as they believe Mrs Dorothy Thorne, 33, of Brierley S\ Mosman, was murdered, the police ar amazed at the cunning of the persoi who put the poison in the fatal seidlit: powder. m Mrs. Thorne died on Tuesday, afte having taken the seidlitz powder Later crystals from a poison were found adhering to the paper whicl. contained the powder. The.police now believe that the powder was secretly extracted from anion?, those in a cardboard box, taken away the contents mixed with poison, ant then just as secretly takoa back tt the home and replaced in the box. Whether this supposed proceeding went on while there was anybody ii the house is, so far, unknown. 1 the plans were carried out while th occupants cf the place were away th murderer' must have been favourei by the temporary absence of the sav age. Irish terrier which guards the house, or by a door inadvertently lei open. The cardboard box was kep on a shelf in the kitchen, behind othe. articles.

Mrs Thorn's "custom was to tea the I 'gr J eas,ebr'#6'f Wrapper enclosing til pow.aers I khtftakfe''il 1 pcf\v'der from'"t.h cerijtre. 1 of were" purfcfiased -! 'o'n Wri6;l7. . fnrf could have been tamp'efecf witn tr| tween June 18, on wMcii 3 a({y? ,Mp Thorne tock the first Tuesday.

Exhaustive inquiries are being mad< to ascertain what person or person; visited the Thorne home between June 17 and last Tuesdav.

Many of the family's friends and relatives have been interviewed. They are all. baffled by the crime, and Mn Thome's parents and her husband arc unable tq give the police any information which may solve the mystery. "TVTASSA'S in de Cold, Cold Ground." , He wouldn't ho If he'd taken MOA COTJ.O.H CURE—I/6, 2/G and $/rirom all Stores.