DRAMATIC SCENES

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 141, 11 December 1935, Page 12

DRAMATIC SCENES

SEQUEL TO A PARTY

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE

(Received December 11, 3 p.m.)

NEW YORK, December 10.

A dramatic suicide attempt occurred at an early hour this morning at Saranac Lake, noted for its tuberculosis sanataria, where George Olvany, jun., 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 a "story." He shot himself through the head and is now in a critical condition.

The young man, who is 22, had been convalescing at Saranac, and friends believed the party was to mark his return to New York. The festivities were gay, and Olvany drank several toasts. They 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 2 o'clock in the morning. He then gave the writer a note, indicating the rendezvous where the details would be available.

The journalist, with forebodings strengthened after reading the note, on Olvany's departure raced after him, but at the meeting place found the young man with a bullet hole in his head.