Tragedy of Drug-Taking.

Thames Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 10399, 24 April 1908, Page 4

Tragedy of Drug-Taking.

LORD SEIiBYS DIAIUIGIHrnEIR, D'lElS OF iAINi OVOORrDOSEt '

rllhe- tragic deiaJtlh' of tlhe Hon. Mlrts MdsßaJbdtlh, Kate Shelley Meaide, ■ wife of 'Captain E. B. Mldaide, and daughter ■Of Vis(c!on.ait Seßby, owing to,an overdose of the d'rmg trional, was kivestii"by tHie Bfl'iglhfton coroner ireoenftly. ' • . iMii's iMleiaJdie leinigiatgeicl a room all itlliie :Gni»nld Hotel, .Briiglijton. .OTue cfliWmtoerimljilidl ttnfflomm'ed' the <mlamia!g<er that filxe had found Mrs Meade lying in bed apparently faisfb ajaflieesp.

lAi dfoator was isummiionifid, and dlt wa(3 founidl Itliitt Mins Mleade was in a cotaiiaifose staite, amid some caidhious of tniomal welra on the table. Hler syimjptoliwa lilnidioaited itlhlajt ahie liiad taiken some cf tlie dnu;g, apparently far the pu;npage oif iinduramg sleep.

'Bviehiy effcn<b wa|?i aulade ..to restbi-e h;er to oansdiousness, Tyixb rfie dlied witlhiouit lhavinig re(ciQfver.ed conisciotill?---ness.

Oaiiaffcaini Miaade_sai'd & wife wiais3o yaaii-is olf «ge. .Sfi«. came to Brighton fc»r tal few days' change penldliing arna;ng»,mlenits 'lie was aiiaiMng for taking ai flitouige 'in- th© couritiry. For yeans she had IKeeini in the hlalbiib of tiakiinig' drugs tb inidiuiee deap. ISo ifalr ate he kmew ffliJe hlad no' troiulble or anxiety of any gait.

Thie •00'POinei* aielmankedl (that pe;iple fiaMing dl^ugs w> dloute increased ike dblse |as taone wenlt on>, amd an oVei*dow> ultlilmlaiEely proved lalfai. A, vertdfiic* of_"Deatli' fiiioimi misladvet)(tiure" wa« returned.