New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-27
A YOUNG WOMAN'S MYSTERIOUS DEATH.
s,-1c1nE OF HER LOVER AN ENGLISH ARMY
SURGEON. WHO WAS SUSPECTED OF
HAVING POISONED HER.

Ionnon Sent 26-Sometling OF a sensation mas
beon caused here by the mysterious death OF young
woman known rs Ruby Russell, who has appercu ~
the Lyric and Drury Lane theatres. Her fea' nai'o
was Marianne Sharpe. For some ume she mas NV
been seen on the stage, and 1t was KNOWN 'n"' STU
was living with Yoodburn Heron, an army sufseon'
Last Tuesday Miss sharpe siddeny taken Ill "heh
h vas alone with Dr. Heron. physician was
nnmoned 10 attend her but he could do nothing ior
ber A short time afterward she became UNCONSCIOUS
and remained in that state until she died. lhere "as
absolutely nothing TO show the cnnse Of d"ath'
An inouest was held Saturday, at which Dr.
Heron testified that he and Miss Sharpe had had
n ON Tuesday afternoon and that she had threatened
70 XIII herself He thought she might have taken
no,eon ON saturday DR.. Heron took n room IN Il
hotel in Craven.st strand Yesterday he did not APP
pear and a policeman broke the door opch' insuo
the room Dr. Heron was found lying IN poor VI
blood with terrible cash in ais throat EVdehce
was also present that he had taken quantity OF
oaon sufficient TO cause his death without the wound
In his throat At the coroner's Inquest on the BODY
y, the dead woman Dr. Heron said that he was a
wdower adding that his wife had died in Jamaica III
1891 He admitted that an Inquest had bceh he'u
mon the body of his wife. 1t is reported That Dr.
Heron left paper in which he confessed that he MUIR
dered Miss Sharpe.
Miss Sharpe who twenty years OF age, WAS
the daughter OF a publican. Her parents had not
seen her I'm "A year. She and DR.. Heron took rooms
I'm Lille Road, West Kensington, on September =
BEFORE the coroner saturday, DR.. Heron, VINO was
voung tall and handsome, said he had met MISS
Sharpe in February, 1891. lie lived with her ubul
August and then went to Africa where Miss sharpe
oined him In December. Both returned TO England
on December ).
The coroner was evidently suspicious that mnNer
had been committed and he adjourned the inquest Tor
three weeks in order that analysis might he maze
Of the contents Of Miss sharpe's stomach IL Is con-
iecured that DR.. Heron, knowing that post morten
examination would reveal the presence OF poison, anu
being guilty of administering it, al once made prePaia
lions 10 kill himself. .ht
DR. Heron, after taking large dose OF mOrphia'
described his sensations as the drug began 10 nave
an effect, writing with pencil OH the margin oI an
evening paper that lay by his SIDE. After dccIarhB
that his sensations pleasant, he says
Dear DOlly-Imprcss on all our lriendS now
strictly I avoided all splriucts liquors. GOodbyc
Ruby. shall soon meet you, II people DO meet
there" -, ,,,
# Is actually 10 O'Clock IN the morning.
Iatcr-"I fancy IL Is actually . 30 feel COM
Portable. Goodbye" . -
slow However. there is some more ,d sft, iI Sr
Scbiccn grains feel perfectly healthy and well
and most beautifully warm ana coInioitaDe, rs Peopie
aiwovs do after taking mJrphia.'
Tfe writing after this cannot be deciphercd Ihere
ara occasional bold strokes but nothing Is distinct
~ is supposed that becoming tired Of the monoonous
wait for death, he used the razor