Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-03
WHERE IS DOUBLE
OF MARIE STONE?
MYSTERY DEEPENS IN CASE
OF SUICIDE
Woman Of Same Name and Almost
Identical Apepsranee In Los An.
aeIes-"Recoenlzed" as the
Former Bostonlan Singer

that of the noted singer.
Descriptions Of the two California
Marie stones" are as follows.
The alleged impersonator-Heisht,
about feet inches; weight, about 165
pounds; extremely light hair, almost
white. and looked like Il had been
bleached: very small hands and feet:
several teeth filled with gold and sew
eral false ones; wore a black serge silk
skirt with black braid trimmings;
black satin waist; nose rather fiat and
turned up; gray eyes.
The unidentified corpse - Height,
about feet inches weight, about 1876
pounds; extremely light hair with dark
streak small hands and feet; two
teeth filled with gold. and one crowned
with gold on upper left side. She wore
a black serge silk skirt with black
braid trimmings; black satin waist ga
shoe.
1t is said that Miss Stone, the prima
donna. answers these descriptions.
AS result of this most remarkable
turn the case has taken, Coroner Trout
will probably me called upon to ex-
hume the body of the supposed suicide
at Ocean Park. Many persons in Los
Angeles stand ready to identify the
corpse.
It is now considered very improbable
that the dead woman at Ocean Park
was Marie Stone" alleged to be an
impersonator. Discovery was made
yesterday by The Herald that Earl
Mcdonald, son of a druggist at Eighth
and Figueroa streets, received a letter
dated San Francisco, February 2S, and
signed Marie" the woman who is
supposed to have been the one i'll and
in destitute circumstances at the West
minister hotel in Los Angeles a few
weeks ago. 1t is said this woman left
the northern metropolis for Walla
Walla, Wash, March 1.
But for this letter every link to COM
plete a chain of circumstantial evil
dence which would connect Marie Stone
with the Ocean Park mystery would
have been found.
Stories regarding the woman now
said to have gone north greatly conflict,
although the evidence taken as a whole
goes to establish the fact that she was
the same Marie Stone, or Marie Stone
ALIASES, Mrs. Webster and Mrs. Bro
die), who for long time stopped at
the Hotel Avalon, Fifth street and
Towne avenue. and afterward was i'll
at the Westminster
Talked of Suicide
From the statements of the physician
and nurse who attended the woman at
the Westminster, as we'll as those who
knew her at the Avalon, it appears
that she was respondent at times and
intimated on numerous occasions that
she wanted to end her life.
Now according to all accounts, this
was the same woman who is alleged to
have written the latter from San
Francisco to young Earl Mcdonald
February 2S, three days after the re-
mains of the woman at Ocean Park
came up from the sea.
One of the most singular condolences
of the whole affair is that the Marie
Stone" or Marie Stone" now said
to be in the north, wore a brooch
which was similar, it is said, in every
particular to the one found on the
corpse at Ocean Park
Mrs. Nora Sotnieff of sos Towne ave-
nue., who was employed at the Hotel
Avalon as domestic during the time
Marie Stone" alias Mrs. Webster and
Mrs. Brodie. stopped there. said:
Il knew the woman very WELL She
gave me a picture (the one reproduced
in todays Herald) and said it was
taken while she was a star in The Bos-
tonians While, of course, the picture
was several years younger than she
appeared to be, there was a marked
for any one else, am confident
Miss Stone or Mrs. Webster, was |
a cultured and refined woman, from
all appearances. She had beautiful
voice and often talked of her stage
career. She said she left The Bos-
whom she seemed to fairly worship al
though she said he was dead. This
caused her much worry, she said, and
she very often was Respondent She
wore her brooch on her breast and
said 1t was gift from her husband"
Dr. o. Nj. Justice, with offices in the
Hellman block, attended the woman
who was i'll at the Westminster He
says the description of the Ocean Park
corpse corresponds with hers complete
ly. While the woman was sick she
told him of being intimately acquaint-
ed with Frank Daniels and other act
ors and actresses. and related her ca
reer with the Bostonians in a way thar
seemed convincing.
Miss Humphreys, the nurse, says the |
woman grew respondent at times. She |
says she talked of cutting her arteries
and even asked that she be permitted
to die.
Manager John II. Blackwood OF the !
Belasco theater says he knew Marie
Stone, the prima donna, in the east
years ago He had often seen the
woman who is alleged to have imper-