The Washington times., 1923-12-25
POISON NOTES.
STIR TOWN
ENBR|TA|N
Pretty Girl Charged With Writ
ing ScandaIous Anony-
nous Letters.
BY international News Service.


SHERINGHAM, England, Dec.
25.-The tongues OF the quaint old
town have been wagging vigorous
ly for five months past.
Scandal, concerning some of the
wealthiest people in the town, has
been spread by nearly every mail.
The postman brought many a fine,
Juicy morsel In anonymous letters.
Now the letters have been made
public and the whole countryside
is agog. for Dorothy Myrtle Thur
burn, aged twenty-three, mas been
hailed into police court at Cromer
and formally charged with having
published series Of defamatory
libels.
Miss Thurburn is a pretty, de-
mure little miss, very girlish in
appearance. She has Indignantly
denied that she had ever written
a single anonymous letter or post
card" in her life. The prosecution
! charges, however, that watch was
kept on the mailboxes and that
Miss Thurburn was seen to post
letters and that when the box was
opened anonymous letters were in
| side.
Maid Imperturbed.
The demure young miss attended
the first hearing of her case and
was quite undisturbed by the pro-
ceedings. De We're Stacpoole, IA
nous novelist, stood as one Of her
suret1es when she was released on
| $4,000 bail after the preliminary
hearing.
Publication of the anonymous
letters has brought more than a
| smoker. for the whole countryside
is laughing and wondering.
One postcard. sent to Mrs. Muir
ray, wife Of Commander Murray,
reads:
Mrs. Christopherson need not
have been jealous of you and her
Old boy. She is in love with one
OF her servants"
Mrs. Margaret Christopherson.
TO whom the above evidently re-
fers, is one of the leading citizens
or Sheringham and charges that
ste has been libeled on nine sepa.
rate occasions.
You spiteful. Jealous old cat and
she-devil" said n letter received
by Mrs. Ethel Copeman. $50 you
'et YOUR friend. Doris Hewitt, meet
your old boy; bat inquire into her
past. But you won't let the Thur
burn girl meet him. You see she
has not a~past like that Of Doris
Everyone will be written to warn.
ing them abcalt you and the old
Chrtstopherson girl. You both are
splteful, Jealous ugly cats"'
Raps Matrons.
odd Christorherson girl cannot
talk" said another letter to Mrs
Gopcman. Look at her with the
man who drives her car. You ask
her where she sits right out in the
country. He calls her &C. and she
calls him - You are "a new
rich, 2) a very old woman trying
TO be young, (2) an evil-tongucd
mischief-maker-a jealous, spiteful
% cat, and you have yellow-dyed
hairr'
Stanley Christopherson received
TIE following letter: "Mrs. Chris
topherson Is a wicked. fast woman,
ana she is in love with her serv-
ont. Johnnie, and does not care a
lamn for her husband. Johnnie
has stayed with the Christonher.
son girl during the war -. What
about the times the Christopherson
girl has with Johnnie in London?"
Lady cambridge received "a let
Ter IN terms similar to these.
These letters have Stumbled the
1lreside leagues" Of Sheringham
with winter munitions. No matter
what the outcome of the charges
eSalnst pretty Dorothy Thurburn
S'ier1ngham has something to talk
ABOUT for months to come.