The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-24
FIND GIRL DEAD
IN AUTO ON
LONELY ROAD
Keeps TrySt With Man,
Unidentified; Coroner
Holds Verdict Open.
NOTE LEFT AT HOME
Auto Doors Locked, Keys
Gone, Body Lying on
Rear Seat.
NOTE LEFT AT HOME

Leaving a note at her home de-
claring everything will be all right
now" Miss Frances NJ. Thompson,
26, of 300 North Mount street, blonde
divorce, drove to a lonely country
road to hold a tryst with an I'M
identified man, then presumably
swallowed poison to end her life
Wednesday night.
Her body was found slumped in
the rear seat of her light sedan
parked at the side of the Seerly road
five miles west of haywood early
today.
Identity of the man who was seen
seated in the car with her by two
youths late Wednesday night had
not been established today. Sheriff
George Winkler believed a suicide
pact between the girl and man may
have existed and that the man
failed to carry out his part of the
pact.
Performing a post-mortem on the
body, Deputy Coroner Bakemeier
announced he would leave the YER
dict open. Despite the girls note
left at her home, Deputy Coroner
Bakemeier declared she might have
taken the poison or it might have
been forced down her throat.
THE note left by this girl said
nothing definite about suicide" Dep
uty Coroner Bakemeier said. ut
might have been written by a girl
leaving home to meet man to
elope."
Car Doors Are Locked
The poison bottle was found
twenty feet from the car in field.
All four doors of the car we're
locked, the right front door from
the outside, but right rear window
was lowered half way.
Deputy Coroner o. H. Bakemeier
believed death due to suicide and
discovery that Miss Thompson had
left note at her home when she
left at 5 Wednesday afternoon bore
out the belief. In the note she di-
rected that a sister, Miss Bessie
Thompson, IT, be educated with her
bank account and that her jewelry
be given the sister.
The parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. T.
Thompson, did not report finding
of the note to police. Besides the
parents and sister, Miss Thompson
is survived by brother, Harry
Thompson, 81.
Body Found by Boys
Sheriff 'Winkler was told Miss
Thompson formerly was married to
John Berne, a Canadian, private
at Fl. Benjamin Harrison. Miss
Thompson was granted a divorce
two years ago, her maiden name
being restored. Miss Thompson
had been receiving attentions from
Noble Brewster, taxi driver, for
some time, her parents said.
A search for the girls male COM
panion was started this afternoon,
when Brewster established the fact
he and the girl had disagreed a
week ago and that she had been in
company of another man.
Inc DOOy was discovered earl
today by James Pierson, 18, of r. r
z. Box $50, who passed the parked
car. He saw the girl in the rear
seat, slumped over, her head on q
pillow. Believing her asleep, he
called to her. Robert Harvey, IA
of Bridgeport also arrived and the
two boys, investigating, concluded
the girl was dead.
Employed as StenOgrapher
They called Sheriff Winkler. Pier
son told Winkler that, with Paul
HOLMAN, 10, of r. r. Z, Box 100,
he passed the parked car late
Wednesday night and that man
occupied it with a girl at that time.
The spot is a lonely one, with
dense woods nearby.
Miss Thompson was employed as
stenographer in the United States
internal revenue agents Office. She
left work July for her annual va
cation, which would have termi-
mated July 30. She had been en-
ployed there for year.