Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 38, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 June 1931 — Page 3

JUNE 24,1931.

PASSION, DESPONDENCY BARED IN STARR S LETTERS

‘DEAD SICK OF it all: beauty WROTE DOCTOR Missives Given Jury Branded Forgeries by Girl’s Stepfather. MYSTERY IS UNSOLVED Authorities Still Skeptical Eccentric Young Woman Took Own Life.. By United Press NEW YORK, June 24.—Despite two letters said to have been written by Starr Faithful! to Dr. G. Jameson Carr, for whom she professed “a mad and insane” attachment, and which Indicated her intention of suicide, the baffling death of the beautiful Greenwich Village girl seemed no nearer solution today. The two missives, presented to the Nassau county grand jury yesterday by Dr. Carr, ship's doctor aboard the Cunard liner Franconia, told of her unrequited love for him and told of carefully laid plans by r he eccentric 25-year-old girl to end her life by means which would pretent frustration. However, District Attorney Elvin N. Edwards, who has clung to a theory of murder since the girl’s body was found on Long Beach more than two weeks ago, declared he still was skeptical that Starr had taken her own life. Branded ‘Forgeries!’ Stanley E. Faithfull also held to the murder theory today and charged the letters were forgeries. He trembled with indignation when he was shown the missives written in round, graceful script, and declared : “The letters are forgeries. That’s all I can say.” Apparently more agitated than at any time since he last saw his stepdaughter on the Friday morning she left home never to be seen alive again, Faithfull denied he had any name to suggest in connection with his charge. Edwards announced today that he intends to continue his investigation along the lines of the murder theory and that the grand jury will be summoned again Friday to hear additional evidence. Inspector Harold R. King, who has continued to refrain from expressing an opinion one way or another, said his mind was still open on whether Starr had committed suicide or had been murdered. Carr Gets Rimed Counsel

Dr. Carr, who voluntarily brought the two letters, and a third—a formal apology from Starr for her actions aboard the Franconia on May 29, when she is alleged to have been taken off the vessel in midstream in an intoxicated condition—already made public, to this country from England, was accompanied by his attorney, Samuel Untermeyer, famed attorney, whom he once attended during a severe illness aboard the Aquitania. What was considered the most Important of the letters was posted at the Grand Central Annex at 4 o’clock on June 4, the day preceding Starr’s disappearance. It revealed the girl’s admiration for the ship's doctor and announced that she ••had only twenty-four hours to live.” The letter opens with an intimate salutation and continues in emotional terms. It read: “I Want Oblivion” '•Hello, Bill, old thing: “It’s all up with me now. This is Something I am going to put through. The only thing that bothers me about—the only thing I dread, is being outwitted and prevented from doing this—which is the only possible thing for me to do. ‘‘lf one wants to get away with tnurder, one has to jolly well keep one’s wits about one. It’s the same with suicide. If I don’t watch out I’ll wake up in the psychopathic ward, but I intend to watch out flnd accomplish my end this time. “No ether, allonal or windowjumping. I don’t want to be maimed. I want oblivion. If there Is any after life, it would be a flirty trick—but I am sure 50,000,000 toriests are wrong. That is one of those things one knows. Welcomes Flirtations "Nothing makes any difference flow. I love to eat and I can have one delicious meal with no worry pver gaining. “I adore music. I am going to hear lome good music. I believe I love tnusic more than anything. I am going to drink slowly, keeping aware every second. Also, I am going to enjoy my last cigaret. “I won’t worry because men flirt With me in the streets —I shall encourage them—l don’t care who they are. “I wish I got more pleasure sleeping with men. I’ve always been a rotten ‘sleeperit’s the preliminaries that count with me. “I Can Be Rude” “It doesn't matter though. It's a great life when one has twentyfour hours to live. I can be rude to people. I can tell them they are fat, or that I don’t like their clothes. “And I don’t have to dread being fc lonely old woman, or poverty, or obscurity, or boredom. I don't have to dread living on without even seeing you, or hearing rumors such as 'the women all fall for him,’ ‘he entertains charmingly.’ “Why in hell shouldn’t you! But It's more than I can cope with— j (this feeling I have for you. No Other Way Out "I have tried to pose as intellectflal, thereby to attract you, but it; Was not successful, and I could not ; go on writing those long, studied j letters. I don’t have to worry, be-

How I fid myself of I PSORIASIS Write and i will tell you my own story as to now I rid myself or this disease without medical treatment, salvescr injections/ F.OJR 61 Jkall/WoodHdclewHbri

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cause there are no words to describe this feeling I have for you. “The words “love, adore, worship,” have become meaningless. There is nothing I can do but what I am going to do. “I shall never see you again. That is extraordinary. Although I can’t comprehend it any more than I can comprehend the words "always”—or “time.” They produce a merciful numbness. “STARR.” The other letter, written on May 30, on the stationery of a hotel, indicated Starr was preparing to take her own life. It read: “I am going (definitely now—l’ve been thinking of it for a long time) to end my worthless disorderly bore of an existence—before I ruin any one’s else life as well. “I certainly have made a sordid futureless mess of it all. lam dead, dead sick of it. It is no one’s fault but my own—l hate everything so—life is so horrible. “Being a sane person you may not understand—l take dope to forget and drink to try and like people, but it is of no use. “I am mad and insane over you. I hold my breath and try to stand it—take allonal in the hope of waking happier, but that homesick feeling never leaves me—l have,

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strangely enough, more of a feeling of peace or whatever you call it now that it soon will be over. The half hour before I die will, I imagine, be quite blissful. “You promised to come to see me. I realize absolutely it will be the one and only time. There is no earthly reason why you should come. If you do, it will be what I call an act of marvelous generosity and kindness. “What I did yesterday was very horrible. Although I don't see how you could lose your job, as it must have been clearly seen what a nuisance you thought me. “If I don’t see you again, goodby. Sorry to so lose all sense of humor, but I am suffering so that all I want is to have it over with. It’s become a hell such as I couldn’t have imagined. “If you come to see me when you are in this time you will be a sport —you are assured by this letter of no more bother from me. “MY DEAR, STARR.” The third letter merely expressed her regrets for her actions on the Franconia. It was understood that when she called at his cabin, Dr. Carr was entertaining friends and .that he told Starr to leave; that he “never wanted to see her again.”

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150,000 FRAUD IS LAID TO RICH MANUFACTURER Found Bound in Ditch, but ‘Kidnaping’ Is Believed Insurance Plot. By United Press ADEL. la.. June 24. John W. Smith, wealthy manufacturer, who once ran for Governor and who for months was considered dead and buried, was held today in the Dallas county jail on charges of attempting to defraud the Travelers Insurance Company of $50,000. Smith was found Tuesday in a ditch, near Garner, la. His hands and feet were tied together with wire. He told officials that three kidnapers held him prisoner in a cellar since February, then tossed him into the ditch. Sheriff C. A. Knee, who brought j Smith here from Garner Tuesday i night, expressed doubt in the kidnaping. story. Smith's disappearance in February created a sensation. He owns a large insecticide factory at Perry, was a candidate for Governor in 1930 and was known throughout the state. Shortly after he left Perry on a business trip, his truck was found burned. In it was the charred corpse of a man. His wife, beneficiary of anew $50,000 insurance policy, buried the body as that of Smith. The insurance company doubted, however, that the politician was dead, had the body exhumed and established that it was not his. The body, it was found, had been embalmed before it was burned with the truck. Mrs. Smith published statements pleading with her husband to return home. On March 20, she received a mysterious message, set ou'| to keep a supposed rendezvous with Smith, nd was injured when her automobile turned over. Several other reports w-ere heard

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Mrs. Willie Mae Clauson, 35, above, faces prosecution at Mobile, Ala., for shooting and fatally wounding Foster K. Hale Jr., prominent attorney and sportsman. She told police she shot the attorney because “he wrecked her life.” Before he died, Hale declared Mrs. Clauson shot him when he “told her that he was through with her and refused her money.” Former Elk Head Dies By United Press TERRE HAUTE. Ind., June 24. John F. Holliday, 57, former exalted ruler of the Indiana Elks lodge, is dead at his home here. of Smith being alive, but no definite word of him was established until he was found Tuesday. The manufacturer appeared to be suffering greatly from fatigue and became incoherent after telling of being held a prisoner. He was identified through fiingerprints. ’ Sheriff Knee and Sheriff E. P. Hanson of Garner, who found Smith, pointed out in expressing doubt of his story that the politician was tanned although he said he had been kept in a cellar since February. They said too that he recently had his hair cut. He wore a three-day beard. He was bound loosely when found, Knee said.

VIVIAN SLAIN IN BORROWED CAR. COURTJS TOLD Obtained Machine for Men Charged With Death of ‘Playgirl.’ By United Press NEW YORK. June 24. Lewis, swarthy Russian and former waiter on trans-Atlantic liners, testified today in the murder trial of Harry Stem and Samuel Greenburg that he obtained the automobile alleged to h2ve been used by : the two defendants in the murder of Vivian Gordon, vice case witness. Lewis, accused by defense attorneys of being the actual murderer, : said that Harry Schlitten, confessed accomplice in the killing, who has turned state’s evidence, met him on ! Sixth avenue last Feb. 25 and asked him if he could obtain an auto. Lewis then went downtown to a : garage on the lower east side and , arranged to borrow a Cadillac

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So Considerate By United Press CLEVELAND, June 24. Robbers held up Winifred Davis and her escort, a young man very much engaged to somebody else. After handing over $25, Miss Davis waited until her escort left before reporting the robbery. She withheld the young man's name in the report.

sedan, he testified. Later he met! Schlitten, Stem and Greenberg, and they took the car, he said. Several days later, Lewis said, the car was returned to him. Three weeks after the automobile incident Lewis said he encountered Stein, who asked him to take a deposit check to Times Square and get a package for him. Before he started for Times Square Lewis declared he met Schlitten, who warned him that he would get in trouble if he went for the package. That same day, Lewis said, he met Stein again, and Stein asked if he had gone for the package. “I told him no, and that he was; a dirty louse,” Lewis said. “I tcld him -that he was trying to get me to pick up the coat that belonged to Vivian Gordon. He told me net to talk so loud.”

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ACE ‘BAILS OUT AS FAST PLANE COES TO PIECES At Rocket Speed, Doolittle ‘Noses *Er Up/ Then Jumps to Safety, By United Pres ST. LOUIS. June 24.—James (Jimmy) Doolittle, considered one of America s most daring and most expert fliers, had another narrow escape from death late Tuesday when his new speed plane started falling apart while he was traveling 250 miles an hour, only 100 feet up Doolittle again displayed the alertness which has saved him on many occasions. Quickly jerking the nose of the ship upward he he climbed almost vertically, and before the plane went to pieces gained enough altitude that he was able to "bail out" with a parachute and float safely to earth. The plane was demolished.