New-York tribune., 1907-12-07
ACTRESSES BODY HERE
FUNERAL HERE TO-DAY
Hrs. Clara BIoOdgOodS Body Ac-
COMMANDED by Husband.

The funeral of Mrs. Clara Bloodgood, the actress.
who killed herself in Baltimore Thursday even
ing will be held at noon to-day at St. Georgss
Protestant Episcopal Church in stuyvesant Square.
1t Will be private as will be the burial sood
deaI OF secrecy was th-owr shcut the proceedings
for the funeral last night by ali concerned.
The body of the actress placed on Baiti-
more Ohio train. leaving Baltimore at n;So
o'clock yesterday morning. William Laimoeer'
husband of the actress; his brother-in-law' Shep-
pard peForest and several members OF Mrs. Blood
goods company playing in THE Truth. accom-
panied the body 10 this city. The tram arrived AT
Jersey City about 40 o'clock II W. Chapman
sexton at ST. Georges, whose undertaking estao-
lishment is at No % East 18th street. met the
train and took charge of the body.
Mr.. Laimbeer has not revealed the contents OF
the letter which she left for him. and which the
Baltimore coroner gave TO him unopened lie SAID
Yesterday that the letter referred entirely 10 pri
vate and business affairs and gave no inAHhs Oh
the motive which led the actress 10 emu heF NE
Nevertheless the general impression Is that this
letter as well as two special delivery letters sent
by the actress TO New Workers, whose names are
al present unknown, a few hours before her DEATH
would shed some light on the real cause OF her
self-destruction.
Nembers OF The Truth company, in which
Mrs. Bloodgood was starring. believe she killed
herself while temporarily insane from an over
towering combination OF hard work nervous de-
nression and melancholy. Some friends OF the
actress IN this city ascribe her act to financial
difficulties. while others say she had nothing TO
fear so far money was concerned The Shu-
berts and Mrs BIoodgood were Jointly interested
in The Truth but Mrs. BoOdgood did not as mas
been stated stand bear 90 per cent OF the loss
in case the play was a failure. Up 10 date on the
road tour the play had not been a complete sue
cess neither had it been heavy loser Mrs.
Hloodgood's contract with the Shuberts guaranteed
her a large salary and place with them for three
years. For next season arrangements had been
made for her TO star again in another Clyde Fitch
play What remains OF the fortune left by her
rnother-about s15e,o-is tied up in the knIcker-
booker Trusl receiver ship
Statements were made yesterday that Mr.. Lain
beer who is a broker and member OF the New
York Stock Exchange. was in financial straits. and
that his wife had returned to the stage not be-
cause of her for 1t but TO support herself lie
did clear "a big proht-said to be Sl,OooeO-in a deal
some time ago. but It is said recent losses and the
expenses incident to part ownership OF the New
castle Stable with Andrew Miller and Ferdinand
Bishop have practically wiped out the million
Another pu2zling feature is that Mrs. Bloodgood
appareutly premeditated suicide yet made plans
for meeting friends here the week before Christmas
when THE Truth" company to rest Early
this week she sent order TO a New York fur
niture firm for the delivery of table at her home
here. At the same tine she wrote to friends and
made appointments for dinners and luncheons. Yet
In a letter sent Memphis last Saturday she
wrote that she had not long TO live before the
footIights and the members OF her company had
noted with anxiety throughout the succession OF
dreary grinding one light stands which have
prised most OF their seasons tour. that she was de-
pressed and despc 1dent. and suffering mental and
physical torture.
Not a few there were who believed that the tieinS
up of her money in the Knickerbocker Trust, the
hard path of The Truth and her husbands
losses in the stock market were blows that last
snapped strands which had long been subjected TO
abnormal tension. They recalled that her life had
been most unhappy from the time she first
came into prominence by her elopement with Will
lam Havemeyer. His career wild that his
wife soon obtained divorce. a year afterward
she married John Bloodgood jr., son OF a well
known and reputedy rich banker. When the father
died Jack Bioodgood, he best known
found there was estate. He became ILL., and his
wife not only gave up society to nurse him. but
went on the stage to support for him Six
weeks after her stage debut in '"The Conouerors'
he died.
In May 1902 she was married to MIR. Laimbeer
who then was about twenty-eight years old He il
graduated from Harvard in 1896. Man and Super
man. "1he Girl with the Green Eyes" and The
Coronet of Duchess were plays in which Mrs
Bloodgood had starred in recent years Last jan
uary she was starred in THE Truth at the Cri-
terion Theatre. but it a failure. The Frohmans
and Clyde Fitch took the play to London. and with
Marie Tempest the star 1t took London by
storm. This determined Miss Bloodgood to try