APARTMENT SUICIDE
DEATH OF MRS MONT NO CONNECTION WITH PARTY. Prets Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, April 26. The police said that the suicide note which Mrs Mont left indicated that the chain letters were sent by a practical joker and net by her. They refused to reveal the contents of the invitations, but the specified apartment building was not the Mont apartment. The suicide*, was apparently a coincidence and not linked with the mystery party. [While 400 prospective guests at a cocktail party were assembled, in a lobby of a Park Avenue apartment, the hostess, Mrs Helen Mont, aged 25, a former actress and the bride of a wealthy interior decorator, committed suicide by ,inhaling gas. _ Mrs Mont sent a chain letter or invitation to a score of friends, instructing them to make two copies of this letter and mail them to their friends. She promised that the mystery party would be the most unusual in New York • history.] ,
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Evening Star, Issue 22633, 27 April 1937, Page 9
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159APARTMENT SUICIDE Evening Star, Issue 22633, 27 April 1937, Page 9
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