The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-25
SANGDON !CESAR'S Song
"F'or Love 1 Live, For Love
/ Die" and Died.
Strange Suicide Of q New
York Actor.
He Wished to Love But Didn't
Care for WedlOck.
The Romantic Story OF the
Dead Mans Triple Love.
His Last Request Of the Carcass Who
Finds Ny She'll"

New YORK, March 19-Henry Aveling,
an actor well known in the profession,
lies dead in the undertaking rooms of II.
Kipp at First-ave. and Eighth-st. He
committed suicide.
Aveling, who had been connected with
the Jim, the Penman" company, regis
tered at the Sturtevant house, Twenty
eight-st and Broadway. on Tuesday last
Room No. 3O5 on the fifth floor was given
to him. He had no callers and seldom
went out. Yesterday morning he APP
peared at the hotel desk and asked for a
letter. He seemed much disappointed
when he found that there was none for
him. In the afternoon he went TO bis
room and locked the door after him. 4
chambermaid had occasion to go to his
room at about o'clock Her knocking
at the door was unanswered and the maid
reported the fact TO the clerk who, think
ing there was something wrong, had the
door burst open.
On the bed the actor lay dead, while be-
side him was a small vial of cyanide OF
potassium, of which he had evidently par
taken. 1t told the story.
Two letters were left by Aveling One
was addressed TO Geofrev Stein. A67 HIST,
Washington, D. c., and read as follows:
To the carcass who may fad my shel-Greet.
ing:
First-I wish William Sheldon of the 'Jim,
the Penman" company TO 90 as he likes with
my remains, and l hereby constitute HIM sole
owner of every cent l may be possessed of no
matter in what shape my property may be.
And l ask William (aforesaid) to be good
enough to prevent Miss Milten Willet from
appearing in any way at my obsequies.
AvELING.
The other was addressed to Miss Clara
Thompson. II read as follows:
CLARA DEAR--we could not live as We
wished, and / 20 now into the great futurity.
Find me there. my darling, if you can.
HENRY.
The following letter was found among
the dead mans effects. Il was writ en- at
the Brunswick house restaurant, New Or
leans, and is dated Jan. Il:
Mr.. AvELING-Is.wish you to understand
am aware OF everything. Believe me, / mean
business and Rm quite prepared 10 20 TO Law
and find out the relationship between Us. but
will readily waive all claim to your valuable
self for a small consideration. l think, as you
have G good er gsgement, 70 per cent of what
you earn is fair. III you prefer II | will write
on to New York and Howe & Hummel will de-
eide for me. But without wishing to condone
a crime, 1 can promise land you have some
knowledge of nv characterl that will observe
the strictest quiet il you will make some pro-
vision by which can live. 1 would not even
make that request but for the SANDER you have
circulated about my eating opium and such
things that have kept me out OF respectable
theaters. So you see / am not afraid of any
thing you can do or say, as you have done me
all the injury that could be done. A p. o. o.
to Marguerite Benson, general postofice, or
through name blotted outl Canals, will be
o. X. MARGUERITE BENSON.
The writer of this letter is an actress
with whom Aveling came to this country
from England in 1879 with Daniel Band
mann. They passed among their acquaint-
ances for man and wife. In 1887 Aveling
married Miss Milten Wiilett and they
have lived together until within year
Mrs. Avelin9 had begun proceedings to
obtain divorce on the ground of INSULT
cient support and incompatbility. The
mother has kept her four-year-od boy
with her during all the time of separation
from her husband.
The Cara Thompson to whom one of
the dead mans letters was addressed is an
actress living at 1853 w. Twenty-second-st.
She said she had no know edge that Avel-
ing intended TO commit suicide and that
they we're not specially intimate in any