LONELY DEATH

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18478, 21 January 1930, Page 2

LONELY DEATH

WOMAN’S STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE. (Prom Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON. December 5. Strange circumstances are associated with the finding of the body in the island ob lona, Argyllshire, of Miss Norah Emily Farnario, who lived at Mortlake-road, Kew. The body was discovered on Tuesday of last week. The police at Oban, on the mainland, have been informed that Miss Farnario's unclothed body was found on a large cross cut in the turf. Near the body was a knife. A sliver chain with a cross was round the neck. Miss Farnario's housekeeper, at Kew, Mrs Varney, told a reporter yesterday that Miss Farnario disappeared on Monday and that three days before she sent her (Mrs Varney) a letter, in which she said, “Don’t be surprised if you do not hear from me for a long time. I have got a terrible healing case on.” Mrs Varney said: —Miss Farnario did not believe in doctors, and she was always curing people by telepathy. She told me once she was going to fast for 40 days. She did so for a fortnight. I found her in her room lying with a sheet over her head. She said she was thinking and seeing visions. She was a vegetarian. Her father was a doctor in Italy. Her mother died when she was a child and she was brought up by a Mr and Mrs Ling at Reigate, Surrey. A friend of the dead woman, Mrs M. Smith, who lives in West Kensington. W., said that Miss Farnario was aged 32. She was a believer in healing by prayer and generally wore sandals, but never a hat.