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Anyone have more detail on this urban myth that apparently is based on a true story?

In Paris, France, in May 1889, a distraught Englishwoman entered the British Embassy to report her mother missing. She explained that she and her mother were passing through Paris on their way back from India, they had checked into a hotel and her mother had been taken ill. The hotel doctor had examined her mother and then sent the young woman to fetch some medicine. When she returned the hotel staff denied ever having seen her mother, only the young woman's name was in the register. When she inisisted on seeing her mother's room, she found it was not the one she remembered and even the hotel doctor denied ever having met her before.
Unable to make her story believed, the young woman was then sent to an asylum in England.

***NOTE***: I've been told that this is based on a true story and that the mother actually died of the plague; the hotel covered it up to avoid bad publicity - anyone heard anything else about this tale???

Thanks!
RICK S - many thanks

I have heard of this tale where the mother died of the plague so they covered it up, but it isn't a true story. It's an urban legend. I own a book on urban legends that says it isn't a true story.