New-York tribune., 1919-07-10
Apparently A a Suicide

LONDON, July 8 (By The Associated
rress).-Evidence gathered bv the no.
nee III the case Of Mrs. Arthur Eliot
VINO was found dead in her home carlv v
to-day, indicates, it was said thai
the woman committed suicide. a shot
was heard in the house about ma.
night last night. A maid going r.
=. f,. fllots room, found the door locked
and barricaded with furniture. An
enlrance was forced and Mrs. Eliot's
body was found with part of the head
blown off. f''
Believed to Be Forty-eight
The death of Mrs. Arthur Eliot ra-
moves from British society life ono ot
It's most talked-of and fascinatino q
hgures, woman who in the last decade
had been involved in half dozen semi
Gals that touched three continents and
whose Wnole history had been laid bare
IN the British courts. Around her Old
riverside home in Edinburgh, Ambcrlev
cottage, there clung for years stranr.
hoodoo 70 marital bliss that followe 4
her to England, to South Africa and
even to America.
AT her death Mrs. Eliot was. per.
haps, forty eight years old Ten years
ago in court she told the Judge that
she was born in Grosvenor Square
Edinburgh, "thirty-four years ago
And when the Lord Advocate inter
rupted with the suggestion that she
should have said "thirty eight" she pro.
tested she didn't know 81 have a bad
memory" she said.
Mrs. Eliot has been called the "most
Fascinating of disturbing elements in
English society,"" Her first appearance
in the courts over marital difficulties
lonvo ~
Atherton, brought suit for divorce,
naming as correspondent John Reginald
Yarde- Butler. According to the evil
dence introduced at the trial, Mrs
Atherton's offences were of long stand
ing, for her husband had heard rumors
Of his wife's misbehavior six years be-
fore, when she was in South Africa,
though the man involved at that time
was not the correspondent named in the
colonel's suit fer divorce. The divorce
was granted.
Sued Captain Yarde-Buller
Captain Yarde Butler soon married
ai.other woman. The divorced Mrs
AthcrtOn, unaware Of the impending
marriage of the man whose friendship
fcr her had resulted in her divorce
from Colonel Atherton, was stunned
by the news and for a week lay un-
conscious at her home, Boxhill, in Sus-
sex. Recovering, she brought suit for
breaei1 of promise, admitting that she
had been guilty of frequent misconduct
with. the captain. The suit, which she
won. attracted considerable attention
at the time.
In another year she was in court
ag; in. She became one of the four
principals in 1909 in the famous Stir-
ing divorce suit in Edinburgh, which
dragged three months in the courts.
The merriment in the court room, in
dueed by the tales Of many cscapades
became so unrestrained, that after fire.
qNent warnings the judge cleared the
court room and debarred the public
from the hearings when the trial was
less than half finished.
Named as Correspondent
Captain John Alexander Stirling,
Laird Of Kippendale, and captain in
the Scots Guards, brought suit for di-
vorce late in the year 1908 from the
former Clara Eliza beth Taylor daugh-
ter of Charles Henry Taylor, of Wash
ington, D. c., and we'll known in Wash
ington and her home, Newark, N. J.
She was an actress before her mar
riage and was reputed one of the most
beautiful girls playing in the London
theatres of her time. Captain Stirling
accused his wife of misconduct with