The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-22
BARRE WOMAN SUICIDES
Deserted BY Her Lover She Took
Poison.

New York, March 19.--Addie Rich
ardson, SO, handsome cloak model
who came to New York from Barre,
VT, few years ago, closed her earth
ly affairs here last Thursday night by
drinking deadly dose Of camphorated
liniment, just after writing note TO
Frank Baxter in which she compared
him to Richeson and Hans Schmidt.
Miss Richardson was filter in the
department store of Frederick Loeser
& Co, Brooklyn. Baxter, 3S, who &C.
cupied room adjoining that OF the
woman who loved him. is salesman
for Baxter, Kelly & Faust, drygoods
importers, at No. 80 East 18th street,
Manhattan.
The suicides story is best told in
her note to Baxter found on table
near her bed.
Frank
Have you ever thought there was
more than one kind OF murder? You
condemned Richeson (The Rev. Clar-
ence V. r. Richeson, slayer of Avis
LinnelD because he gave poison TO
one girl to marry another who would
give him more social standing after he
had won the love and confidence of and
promised to marry the girl he killed.
You condemned Hans Schmidt because
he killed a girl to save himself after he
had won her love, lived with her and
got her in trouble.
Are they one bit worse than man
who would accept everything from
woman, give her all kinds of promises.
palm for their future together; then af
ter nearly three years turn her down
when she had been straight with him
in every thought and action? MOI What
ever happens his hands are just as
much stained as Richeson's. The on
ly difference is that the world won't
find him out, but, believe me, If there
is just God, and believe there is, he
will be punished just asmuch with the
stings of his own conscience as If he
were executed for the crime.
Frank Baxter, you are just as much
responsible for my death as if you had
shot me or poisoned me, and it would
have been thousand times more mer
ciful to have killed me quickly than
treated me in the way you did. My on
ly hope is that if you ever take anoth-
err girl in your arms there will appear
before your eyes the word, Murder!
And if there is any way of coming
back to earth ! will be there to single
You out.
Il have given you everything wom-
an can give man. ! am not sorry be-
cause ! loved you better than any 9TH
er woman will ever love you. cannot
live without you, and | cannot face my
people and tell them am not going to
be your wife. You have spoiled my life
and you have killed me. Now go your
way and answer to your God for your
crime.
"ADDIE."
Baxter when questioned by the po-
lice, said he met Miss Richardson
through flirting with her in a restau.
rant. Soon after that they lived in a
small Brooklyn hotel, posing as broth
er and sister. About a year ago they
moved TO Cumberland street.
Il knew them only as good friends"
Mrs. James said yesterday, "and it is
my conviction that their relations here
were clean and honorable. She was
such fine woman that | cannot en-
terrain suspicion against her charac-
ter"
They quarrelled Wednesday night
and Baxter departed early in the night,
When he returned Thursday he asked
Mrs. James to accompany him to his
room to assist him in packing his cloth
es for removal. For some hours prior
TO this Mrs. James had been unable to
get a response to taps on the woman's
door
Miss Richardson, who killed herself
with camphorated liniment, wrote only
the letter TO Baxter.
When Baxter was asked by reporters
if he wished to say anything he replied;
mo, not thing, and | would appre
ciate it for the rest of my life IL you
wouldn't print anything about this"
CARDINAL CRITICISED