Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-08-09
]. ". LAMBERT 4 SUICIDE?
Former Burlingtonian Dead in
st. Louis Home.
Second wife. who Was Miss Bernice
Kendall of Worthwhile, n Nurse,
Now visiting Relatives in
Hinesburg.

In the spring Of 1910. there came to Bur-
,lington Jordan w. Lambert. wealthy and
widely known as a sportsman and presi-
dent of the Lambert Pharmaceutical COM
pany of st. Louis, Mo. Mrs. Lambert, n
charming, but delicate lady, came with her
husband, and two sons both sturdy young
sters completed the household. During the
summer of 1910, they lived on North Pros
pect street. and in the winter of 1901
in the residence of w. Il. McKillip, at the
corner of South Union and Maple streets.
MIR. Lambert was studying at the Uni
versity of Vermont Medical College and
his family lived quietly making but slight
impression on Burlington's social life.
A year previous, Miss Bernice Kendall
daughter Of Mrs. A. A. Kendall of Nor
risvile. had come to Burlington to become
; a trained nurse. She took a course at the
" Mary Fletcher hospital and was then en-
gagged as nurse for Mrs. Lambert while
the family was living in the McKillip
residence. Because of Mrs. Lambert's i'll
health the family went to Europe and
then to st. Louis Later, 1t is said, there
came n divorce, and about two years ago
Mr. Lambert married, in st. Louis. his
First wife's nurse.
g. LAMBERT FOUND DEAD IN BED.
~ Tuesday morning Jordan w. Lambert
was found dead in bed, shot through the
head. He had evidently killed himself as
a revolver known to be his lay on the floor
near his bed. A maid answering the tele-
phone received call from an unknown
woman and went to awaken Mr. Lambert,
but found him dead. The police of that
city are searching for the woman who
called the millionaire's apartments. but
hung up the telephone receiver. without
giving her name.
Mrs. Lambert left her husband in St.
Louis, May and came to Vermont, to Wis
1t relatives. She brought with her her in
FAINT son, handsome child. about five or
six months old. and was accompanied by
her mother, who had been visiting her
since last fall. Mrs. Lambert has been and
is now the guest of her aunt Mrs. Will
liam Andrews of Hinesburg.
RUMORs OF TROUBLE DENIED.
O 1t is rumored that there had been trou-
: Bile between Mr.. and Mrs. Lambert. and
stories of a separation. but this was
DENIED Tuesday by Mrs. Lambert She
had come to Vermont, she said, simply on
visit during the summer and intended
to return to st. Louis as soon as the hot
O. weather was over. A summer in Vermont,
1t was thought, would be far more bene-
ficial to the mother and child than in the
. ST. Louis climate.
g Mrs. Lambert is a refined appearing
lady, perhaps a year or two past thirty,
and of a pleasing personality. She was
doubly agitated Tuesday. because of
the tragedy and because of the newspaper
. accounts of it, There was no reconciliation
OF her statement that relations between
herself and her husband were pleasant
with newspaper despatch received by the
Free Press, which said that a letter had
been found in Mr.. Lambert's apartment
from Mrs. Lambert, stating that she
: would not seek her freedom, but appear
ing willing that he should secure a di-
svOrce.