The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-14
New Haven Girl
 Is Found Dead Olive Butler Had Impas- :. stoned Letter Written on i Yale University Paper
PROBABLY FROM STUDENT
Girl Left Elm City with May Ellsworth to Join a ; Chorus in New York

New York, Oct. 1EOlive Barton,
 or Butler. a nineteen year old girl
 who came to this city from New Ha-
 ven, Conn. to go upon the stage. was
 found dead in a furnished room yes-
 terday afternoon. In the hand bag
 that she carried was found letter
 with a Yale university head which
 begged the girl to come back to New
 Haven and the man who loved her.
 There were no marks of violence on Olive. and May Ellsworth. "a. girl of her own age. who told the police that ehe. too. came from New Haven, came
 to inc city two weeks ago looking for
 positions in the chorus of a musical ; show, They lived for while on For ty-fifth street. but their funds gave out and on Thursday night they met Ben famiu F. Williams, a hotel clerk, and Roy McCaslin, bell boy, who [ had furnished rooms at PIT West For ty-second street. They went to the room with the men and yesterday
 morning sent out for chop suey an0
 About noon Olive complained of vio- lent pains in her stomach. The men did not send for doctor until sne was unconscious. Then they called the Reception hospital on the tele- phone OI. found Olive lying on couch dead. She had worn a blonde wig over wealth of black hair. Dr. Kern called a policeman also in turn notified Cor oner Holtzhauser. He ordered an au- topsy to be performed on the body Tn the dead girls handbag the pc lice found a letter headed 'Yale Uni versity" in which the writer told of his love for the girl said that he could not live without her and beg 9ed her to come back to New Haven. He said that he had written her hf- teen letters all the time that she had been away and had had no answers.
 The letter was signed with a hiero- glyphic. U
 The body of the girl was sent to the
 morgue and the two men and the Els worth girl were held in the West For ty-seventh street station as material
 witnesses.
 New Haven, Oct. 14-In this city Olive Barton-whose theatrical aspira- tions came to such a tragic end III New York tenderloin-is believed te be Olive Butler, of this city, who ! with Mae Ellsworth, at present in the custody of the New York police, is we'll known around New Ravens white light district as Jennie Ellsworth
 It is thought, however, that the dead girl is Alice Butler, who, until recent Iiy. figured prominently with Miss Els
 worth in the gayer life of the City oi ; Films.
 It was known that Olive, alias Alice Butler lived on Chapel street and when a reporter called at number 49s !, on that street, where a Miss Alice Butler resides, he was informed by
 her mother that Miss Alice was ir
 New York city, but that nothing had
 been heard of her death. Mrs. Butler u l-. l. <I
 Mae. alias Jennie. Ellsworth, Or Olive Barton. She said that her daughter was working in New York and that yesterday morning she received a let ! fer from her. Mrs. Butler was not | in the least perturbed when told that
 an Alice Butler, alias Barton. had died in the metropolis and insisted emphatically that the ptomaine-poi-
 son victim in New York city was not her daughter.