DOUBLE MYSTERY EXCITES LONDON.
STARTLING LETTER WAS WRITTEN BY WOMAN. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received November 25, 1.50 p.m.) LONDON, November 24. Sensational evidence at the inquest to-day deepened the double mysterv and intensified the keen public interest in connection with the fortnight’s disappearance of Mrs Annie Hearn, following the death o her riend, Mrs Alice Thomas, a Cornish farmer’s wife, in whose organs analysis disclosed a fatal quantity of arsenic. Mrs Hearn described herself as a Sheffield doctor’s widow, but a doctor with a name identical with that of her alleged husband denies that she was his wife. The inquest is creating such excitement that the police had to regulate the queues at Plymouth Guildhall, the scene of the inquiry. A letter was read at the inquest which was posted by Mrs Hearn from Launceston, Cornwall, to Mrs Thomas's husband on November 10. the day she vanished.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19236, 25 November 1930, Page 7
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149DOUBLE MYSTERY EXCITES LONDON. Star (Christchurch), Issue 19236, 25 November 1930, Page 7
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