"FAREWELL PARTY."
DRAMATIC SUICIDE ATTEMPT
KEW YORK, December 11
A dramatic attempt at suicide occurred at an early hour yesterday morning at Saranac Lake, noted for its tuberculosis sanatoriums, where George Olvany, jun., the son of one of the most famous of the Tammany Hall chiefs, after giving a "farewell party," to which he invited a journalist, to whom he gave the "story," shot himself through the head. He is now in a cx'itical condition.
The young man, who is 22, had been convalescing at Saranac and friends believed the party was to mark his return to Kew York. The festivities were gay, and Olvany drank several toasts, which were startling in their implications. Then he called the journalist aside and said that he would have a story for him, which was "going to break" at two o'clock iin the morning. He then gave the writer a note indicating a rendezvous where the details would be available. The journalist, with his forebodings strengthened after reading the note on Olvany's departure, raced after him, but at the meeting place he found the young man wounded.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 294, 12 December 1935, Page 7
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