AMAZING DIARY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 205, 29 August 1936, Page 4 (Supplement)

AMAZING DIARY.

SHOT BLONDE'S SECRETS. i SORDID CHICAGO SENSATION. LOVED AL CAPONE'S AIDE. ' Night life in Chicago and the' butterfly existence of beautiful, blonde Audrey Vallette are vividly portrayed in a little black diary which the police are studying in an effort to trace the person who shot Audrey as she sat up in bed in her negligee eating her breakfast. Witnesses who saw a woman run from the hotel after a revolver bullet had

killed Miss Vallette have identified her from photographs as Mrs. Ruth Freed. She is the wife of a man with whom the shot girl is believed to have been in love.

The man is Edward Freed, owner of a night club—a former aide-de-samp of Al Capone, the notorious gangster now in gaol. The diary revealed that Miss Vallette was deeply in love with him. Both Freed and his wife were in hiding.

Their attorney said Mrs. Freed would surrender after she had an opportunity of seeing her husband, who, ho stated, left the city.

Chicago is deeply interested, for some of the best-known names in city society are mentioned in the diary. Police deleted names from the extracts of the diary made public. Night Club Rounds. She discloses all the details of her close friendships with many men. excessive drinking and wild parties. Day after day with different men she had made the rounds of the night clubs.

Such phrases as "We drank a pint," "Had another pint" and "We got drunk," appeared frequently. She told of a night club where her friend "Lillian got awful drunk and wandered down floor naked."

She had been to the popular Michigan resort df Cedar Lake and "would lov<: to have a cottage, there this summer. If wasn't so tight he'd do it. She surely owes it to me."

While various men filed in and out of her gay life, it was "Eddie" who dominated the diary. A few months ago she wrote, "Awakened at noon today alongside mv Eddie. It was sweet having him with me like that. I think he is one swell guy and wish he belonged to me."

Another time she wrote that Eddie's wife had called, and "she ought to know," obviously referring to her own infatuation for Eddie.

Police say they have established that the niaht before the murder Mrs. Freed visited her husband's night club. "The Nuthouse," and violently tore her own photographs from the wall of her husband's offices. She had scratched his face and stormed out, yelling: "I'll come back and give it to you both." A little later, according to other witnesses. a blonde, who might have been Miss Vallette, left by a side entrance. Other Woman's Voice. Before this, police say, Mrs. Freed, who had been visiting her mother in New York, telephoned to her husband at their Chicago flat. A woman answered the telephone. Taking her mother with her, Mrs. Freed immediately flew back by aeroplane to Chicago and accused her husband of infidelity in a stormy, threatening interview.