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The tragic and untimely end of the smart, pretty, wonderfully-dressed Countess of Stanchester will still be fresh within the memory of newspaper readers.
It will be recollected how, with her maid, she left Sibberton Hall for Paris, and how in her room at the _Hotel Continental_ she was found dead, having unfortunately taken an overdose of morphia.