TRAGIC DEATH
PASSING OF IDOL OF SILENT FILMS United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright (Received October 30, 7 p.m.) LOS ANGELES, October 29. Lou Tellegen, aged 52, a matinee idol of the silent film days and former husband of Geraldine Farrar, an opera singer, died at his home to-day as the result of seven stab wounds in his breast, which the police state he apparently inflicted with a pair of scissors. 111-health, and a recent fear that he was losing his mind, are ascribed by the police and his physician as the probable reason for the act. Tellegen was found in the bathroom at his home with blood-stained scissors near his outstretched arm. He died an hour later with a physical fortitude that baffled the doctors and police. Tellegen apparently repeatedly plunged the scissors into his body until he finally struck his heart.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19944, 31 October 1934, Page 7
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142TRAGIC DEATH Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19944, 31 October 1934, Page 7
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