The death in tragic circumstances is reported of Henriette Frank, which occurred on Sunday morning as the result, it is alleged, of poison self-administered over night.
It appears that on Saturday night a. lady friend of the deceased called on her at the house in Bubbling Well Road where she lived and, as she crossed the threshold! of deceased's room, heard her murmur in a hoarse voice, "ye done it." It was apparent that the unfortunate lady was suffering from something she had drunk. Help was summoned but despite every attention the lady died early on Sunday morning.
The deceased, who was a German by birth and married to a Swiss, had few friends in Shanghai, only the lady visitor and one gentleman being known to be ac-Guainted with her. Those with whom she came in contact allege that she never behaved abnormally, though she is said to have been greatly upset by divorce proceedings instituted against her by her husband in Switzerland, and which to her surprise ended in a separation from her husband and the loss of the custody of her two children.
No inquest will be held, we understand, as under Swiss law that formality can, under certain conditions, be dispensed with. A permit. for burial was issued by the Swiss Consul-General.
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