Evening Star Newspaper, March 5, 1929, Page 26

MYSTERY DEEPENS IN'WOMAN'S DEATH Housekeeper Who Sued Wealthy Employer for Back #& Pay Believed Slain. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla, March 5.—Muystery to- day surrounded the killing in a hotel here Sunday of Mrs. Nora Wilson, 40, whose body was found with a bullet through her head. o ‘The first theory advanced by police, Which was their strongest belief, was that the woman, a former housekeeper for Guy A. Loomis, wealthy New York Winter visitor, had taken her own life. O=cials, investigating the case, ho ever, now have disclosed that the fatal wound bore no powder burns and some were inclined to believe she died by a hand other than her own. In the meantime, Loomis, who was being sued for $25,000 by Mrs. Wilson for alleged back salary for her services as housekeeper, disappeared on his THE EVENING STAR., WASHINGTON, Pogs TUESDAY, . MARCH 5, ' 1929. The Private Life of The Prince of Wales (As Told by an Intimate) Chapter IX. The Prince and His Tours | (Copyright, 1929. by North American News- whenever he could, simply wore tweeds, paper Atliance;) | plus fours or riding breeches, and met When the Prince had moved his es- | everybody with little fuss | tablishment to York House his tours | ~Though, generally |of the British colonies began. They |Prince was extreme were important episodes in the Prince’s | wherever he went, h | life, extending over nearly seven years, |without their awl ! and they had considerable influence in | These naturally wer {shaping his character. ; kept out of the press. It was no new thing for an heir to | During his South African tour the | the throne to tour the colonies and | Prince visited the house of a farmer | dominions. Such tours had been made | whose political sympathies did not in- | by the Prince’s father and grandfather. | cline him to regard kings and princ | The interest in the Prince’s travels lies | with much favor, nor had he any vio in the fact that hie made them in a|lent affection for | new way. | which the Prince had come. caking, the well received tours were not ard oceurrences. as far as possible the country from | private yacht, but later returned and | Heretofore they had been more O | 7pe farmer, when the Prince called. gleam in the lad's eye as the two got into the car, a little two-seater. The driver started with a run up a hilly road, then came a turn and the car slid down an incline at 40 miles an hour and turned again almost at right angles into a narrow road with a sheer | drop of 30 feet at one side. | _The youthful driver had two: wheels | of the car over the drop as he took a which lay part of a fallen tree. The car shaved the trunk of the tree and then jumped a gully in the road. “A Well Plucked Digger.” ‘The boy looked at the Princ obviously and unaffect y | “Well, you are a well plucked digger,” | the 1ad exclaimed. When the drive was | over the boy told his father his opinion |of the Prince, with the result that the | farmer asked his visitor to have s billy-tea. The two parted good en friend: During part of hi were difficult and trying experiences for | the Prince. | _He passed_through villages in w Don’t Gargle Quicker and Better Relief With Famous Prescription Don't suffer from the pain and soreness of sore throatgargles and Teported to police that he had left to | less in the nature of royal processions | opened the door and asked th avoid publicity. | through the colonles, attended with all | {n° Byt he aid not ask the Princ Mrs. Wilson left a series of notes, in | the elaborate eeremony and splendor | sif down. Pipe in mouth and hands which she referred to “Guy” who was | then deemed necessary. in his breeches pockets, he leaned believed to be Loomis. In one of the | The present Prince, far as he| ggainst a table and all the Prin communications, apparently addressed | could, cut out all the ceremonial T2 Hoiit ot s ins Ay ¢ to Loomis, she wrote “while your first | ing his tours he met all kinds-and class- | A no." | wife, Julia, was working at the Plaza at |es of persons, and met them with as| Presently the farmer's son, a lad | salves are 00 slow - (hey Telleve only temporarily. But Thoxine, a famous physician's ‘prescription, is guaran- teed to give reliel almost instantly. Thoxine has & double action--re- lieves the soreness and goes direct to he internal cause. No chloroform. iton or other harmful drugs—safe und pleasant for the whole family. Also wonderfully efective ~for re- hs. Quick relief gui turning at full speed into a road across | 0 drive. The boy’s little game had failed. | Indian tour there | | Sore Throét? | $60 a month we were only a few doors away having everything your millions could buy.” Loomis told investigators last night that his “relations with Mrs. Wilson have been those of employer and bene- factor.” He described the notes as prol ably having been written while Mrs. ‘Wilson was “highly excited. Elegant Simplicity little ceremony as possible. | about 17, asked the Prince if he would | Ceremony, of course, unn\nidnbh“ like to see a bit of the country in the at times. For example, the Prince had | boy's car, and the prince at once ac- to meet governors of colonies, mayors | quiesced.” There was a mischievous | and others in a formal way, and give | them opportunity to wear their gor- | geous official uniforms and robes. 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This was evident | ing even money the Prince had at Poona, then one of the most disaffected | < in India. : ally planned to rush the | Prince thhough 'it, but instead he stopped for a night and went to th Poona races, where he was received with | great enthusiasm. Diaries have been kept of all the | Prince’s tours. These have been printed, | but not yet published. However, a diary | which was kept on board H. M. S. Zealand and Australia has been pri- vately circulated and can be quoted It was written by two naval offi and there are characteristic storie: | dressing gown and top.hat, and the two | | of & scrap and at the end our white ties the Prince in it. Here is one extract | days previously, gave a dance on board, 1 concerning a dance at Melbourne, at-|and we were all allowed to ask our own | tended by the Prince and officers of the | partners. It was a splendid wind-up to | Renown. a zlalrious mor;t?. H. l: ); v\iu._ttm‘ };::‘ usual good spirits, and the last sig AGTER e oo n EWEeYe Sydney had of him was scrapping on “There was lots of fun. H. R. H. and | the aft deck, with Mountbatten and Mountbatten and two of the girls ran- | others of the staff in a very disheveled sacked a wardrobe, and the Prince of | condition.” Wales appeared in a pair of very big| These weresthe kind of happenings | tennis boots, the trousers turned up |the Prince delighted in, and that made nearly to his knees, an enormous blue | his travels different from all other royal flannel coat that must have belonged ' tours. to a man weighing about 16 stone (224 | But he got through his serious work pounds) and a squash hat, also too big | very creditably, and much as he hated for him. Mountbatten appeared in a | the ceremonial part of it he managed to execute it with an outward cheerful- ness which impressed members of his staff with the idea that H. R. H. had | certainly in him the making of an actor. 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