FORMER ACTOR.
A TRAGIC END. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 29. Lou Tellegen, aged 52, a matinee idol of the silent film days, and the former husband of Geraldine Earrar, the opera singer, died at his home to-day as the result of seven stab wounds in the breast, which the police state he apparently inflicted with a pair of scissors. 111-healtli and a recent fear that he was losing his mind are .ascribed by the police and Telegen’s physician as the probable reason for the act. He was found in the bathroom at his home with the bloodstained scissors near his outstretched arm, and died an hour later. With a physical fortitude that baffled doctors and police, Tellegen apparently repeatedly plunged the scissors into Ins body until he finally struck the heart.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 286, 31 October 1934, Page 9
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130FORMER ACTOR. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 286, 31 October 1934, Page 9
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