IN REAL LIFE

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3784, 30 July 1932, Page 5

IN REAL LIFE

The Heroine Takes Poison TRAGEDY OF PHOTOPLAYER LINA BASQUETTE HAS A LOVE DISAPPOINTMENT WANTED JACK DEMPSEY ENGAGED TO HIS TRAINER THEN TAKES DOSE OF CAUSTIC RECOVERY WILL BE SLOW By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright (Aust. and N.Z. Cable.) (Received July 30. 10 a.m.) Los Angelo-, July 20. I,ilia Rasquetta, a 25 year old actress swallowed a disc .ii poison tvday only a few hours after she had announced her engagement to Teddy Hayes, the former trainer of Jack Dempsey to slide rumour's that she might marry Dempsey. Beside the actio s flic popce found a note addressed to Jack Demprrey, leading: “I low you—only you. I couldn't help it. I couldn’t go oil without you.” Physicians reported her condition u be critical. Miss Basquette, who has been twice married, took a caustic poison after spending the evening with Hayes. QUESTION AND ANSWER. She had been so de pendent, Hayes said that he had telephoned her after lie liad taken her home. ‘ Are you all right?” Hayes said ho asked. ‘‘Sure I’m all right. 1 have just taken poison!” was her reply. WITO TEI.EPHON ED ? He rushed to her apartment and administered first aid until the police arrived in answer to an anonymous telephone call. The actress wa- writhing in agony on a divan. The police said it might be several days before she will be out of danger. ONCE BEFORE Miss Basquette attempted suicide once before, in 1930. after an, unsuccessful effort to obtain the custody her child from Harry \\ arncr, brother of her husband, Sam Warner.