Death in a Bath

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7285, 12 October 1933, Page 10

Death in a Bath

PARIS TRAGEDY RECALLED United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON - , Oct. 9. Tho solicitor acting for the mother of Miss Dorothy Wright, who died of gunshot wounds in a fashionable hotel in Paris recently, has left for Paris. He say 3 that ho has discovered important fresh evidence and hopes to induce the polico to exhume tho body and hold a public inquiry. Mystery surrounds tho death of pretty Dorothy AVright, aged 24, who was found dying of gunshot wounds in a bath in a fashionable Champs Elysees hotel early in August. The police, fearing a scandal in society and political circles, endeavoured to suppress details of a tragedy. The victim was born in Ceylon, and spent her childhood in India and Australia. Later it was discovered that the man in the case was Roland Coty, son of tho millionaire, Francois Coty, perfume manufacturer and newspaper proprietor. He states that he found the girl in a room adjoining his bedroom. She held a revolver, and he seized her wrist, but she iired at her head.