Age: 30
Sex: female
Date: 25 May 1917
Place: 21 Hans Place, Chelsea, London
Mary Elizabeth Baker was found dead in her residence after an attack of haemorrhage.
She was the wife of a member of the stock exchange and a Baronet's daughter.
A doctor that had attended to her shortly before her death said that she made rambling statements to him, during which she confessed that she had operated on herself.
A Home Office analyst said that he failed to find any trace of poison, whilst the pathologist gave her cause of death as heart failure consequent on the operation.
An open verdict was returned.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Derby Daily Telegraph - Wednesday 13 June 1917
see The Halesworth Times and East Suffolk Advertiser. - Tuesday 19 June 1917
see Pall Mall Gazette - Tuesday 12 June 1917
see Chelsea News and General Advertiser - Friday 24 August 1917
see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Wednesday 13 June 1917
