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...Since the War Peers and Peeresses going bankrupt have averaged seven per year, but efforts to keep them out of jail nearly always succeed and no Peer or Peeress was in jail last week. In February 1934 His Grace the Duke of Leinster barely escaped incarceration by paying his irate tailor...
...must to all women, Death came last week to May Etheridge, 42, former Duchess of Leinster. Her grace vanished, her beauty gone. Her Former Grace was found sprawled across a bed in Brighton with a bottle of poison by her side. Since 1930 she had been living on $25 a week provided by the Duke's family with the understanding that she would not return to the stage and would make no effort to see her son. the present Marquess of Kildare and heir to the Dukedom...
...Duke of Leinster, who in 1913 married May Etheridge...
...their honeymoon in a Lake Ontario log cabin. Lord Edward returned to serve gallantly through the War with the Irish Guards, go bankrupt in 1918 owing ?300,000. Already separated from his chorus girl Duchess, he succeeded to the Dukedom in 1922. To recoup his fortunes the Duke of Leinster sold stock in himself as "The Dukedom of Leinster Estates, Inc." The Duchess fell in love with a 26-year-old cook named Stanley Williams...
Died. Hugh Anthony Leamy, 35, managing editor of the American Magazine suddenly, of congestion of the liver; in Manhattan. Unidentified for five days, his body lay in the city morgue while police and relatives searched for him. Died. May Etheridge, 42, divorced wife of the Duke of Leinster; by her own hand (poison); in Brighton, England...