TRAGEDY IN MELBOURNE
YOUNG ACTRESS’ DEATH. END OF UNHAPPY MARRIAGE.
Received May 19, 5.5 p.m
MELBOURNE, May 18
Mrs Fenton, whose dead body was found yesterday on the bank of the Yarra with a bullet wound in the head, was a noted beauty, and was one of Jhe “Beautiful Eight Ballet” that made its debut in the first production of “So Long, Letty.” She met Fenton two and a-half years ago and fell in love with him. Her mother thought that her daughter, who was then only 17 years old, was 100 young to marry. Fenton followed her to” Sydney, where the couple were secretly married.
Mrs Fcnlon left on a tour of New Zealand a month later, but broke the contract and returned to Sydney. Her marriage proved unhappy, and ended in the wife leaving her husband five months ago, taking her baby daughter, then a month old.
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Waikato Times, Volume 95, Issue 14949, 20 May 1922, Page 5
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