The Washington times., 1920-09-11
OLIVES DEATHS
HELD ACCIDENTAL
Police Commissioners Finds
Movie Star Took Poison
BY Mistake.
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for four doctors. My wife was then
taken to the hospital"
Although they officially scout the
suicide theory, police are insestiEat-
Ing sinister runsors of coeiaHasJ orgies
intermInEied with champagne dinners
which lasted into the early hours of
the morning, that have been anont in
the American colony and among the
habitues of the French cinema world
during the past week.
FORMER YANK ARRESTED.
Last night in the Sante prison, the
police closely questioned a man named
Spalding, said to be a former American
army captain, who was sentenced to
six months IN all last Monday for
vending cocaine.
A sensation was caused by Miss
Thomas death and many prominent
American residents united In de-
nouncing the 'Babylonian Tevels" OF
Paris.
Miss Thomas took poision after q
gay night In the Montmnrtre restau-
rants, followed by n visit 10 ciandes-
tine places Of entertainment which
are operated In defiance of the police
regulations. Her friends said that
she wns much excited over the sights
she had seen and was In nm extreme
Iy nervous condition when she re-
turned to her hotel, sunday morning.
They assume that she took poision by
mistake while In this excited eondi-
| ton.
GAY AT .DEAD RAT"
To see real old time Paris" Miss
Thomas on Sunday night, accom-
panied by several friends, visited the
Dead Rat the most famous OF the
Montmarte resorts. She appeared to
| be in the highest spirits. though so
tired that some of her intimates
warned her that she would collapse
| II she persisted in burning the can
die at both ends.
Not needing this. she remained at
the Dead Rat until the closing hour,
! a. m and Immediately thereafter
started on taxicab round of the
cladestine resorts which always open
to the magic key-gold.
| At a. IN. she arrived back at the
Ritz She went to the bathroom.
Immediately afterward, with a
piercing scream, she cried to her hus-
band:
I've taken poison"
Without losing a moment he forced
her to drink hot salt water and bi-
carbonate of soda, meantime apply
ing violent massage to create a quick
| reaction. The hotel doctor responded
| to an alarm. He effected a quick
transfer to the hospital in the Pick
| ford car. DR.. Joseph. Choate, of Los
Angles. family friend, being in
Paris, was summoned and took charge
| OF the case. '..
Realizing at once it's gravity, he
Ttelegraphed for eminent specialists.
TOOK OUT 100000 POLICY.
DR. Choate had examined Olive
| Thomas just before she left the
United States for Paris, Incidental to
her application for "a life insurance
| policy for 100000.
| Mrs. Clarence w. Wulfelt, of Los
Angeles, gave the following version:
"Olive is my dearest friend. She
had been feeling i'll ever since her
arrival here. Saturday night Jack
tried to persuade her to stay in bed,
but she insisted that, being unable
| to sleep, she wanted to dine out. We
| ined downtown and afterward visited
the Montmarte restaurants. including
| the Abbaye Thelelme.
Among those with us were Lieu
tenant G. A. Ray. of the American en-
bassy, and Fred Almey, of Los Ange-
| les. We returned to the Ritz at about
$3.50 o'clock. Olive complained of IA
tigue and insomnia"
| At the embassy II was said that
Ray left a week ago, ostensibly to go
| to London for a vacation. Almey
| could not be found.
| Fred w. Nelson said that he, Cyril
Gray and Wilfred Graham, all of Los
Angeles. joined the Pickford party at
the Montmartre. He added:
But, 1 can't tell you what hap
pened, though, because / don't re-
member a thing after a. M"
DIED WITHOUT A WORD.
Miss Thomas did not speak once
after taking the poison. not even TO
her husband. who sat by her bedside
most Of the time.
| While Miss Thomas was dying.
owen Moore. former husband OF
Mary Pickford; Dorothy Gish, Norma
Talmadge, and other rilm stars now
in Europe waited downstairs in the
lobby of the hotel, not permitted to
see her.
The police yesterday Investigated
the rumor that Miss Thomas was
Jealous of her husbands alleged at
tentions to blonde light opera
star.
The body OF Miss Thomas will not
be exposed to view, even to her
friends. The face was horribly con-
tracted by pain and badly splotched
by the deadly poison. 1t is expected
that the body will be. sent to the
United states next week for burial
SUFFERED NERVE DEPRESSION.
Recently Miss Thomas, who. came
! to Europe with her husband several
/ weeks ago, had suffered from nervous
| depression, II was said.
I Pickford yesterday left the Ritz
! Hotel, where he had been stopping,
and has taken up quarters in the
Hotel Crillon. He declined to receive
visitors today. The physician who ~
: in attendance on Pickford said he
was in a very bad state OF health.
= The real name Miss Thomas was
| olive Elain Duffy. She was % years
old. having been born October 20,
1898 at Charleroi, Pa.
The Rev. DR.. Beekman, pastor OF
the American Church in Paris, who
has been conducting campaign
against vice conditions since the war,
conditions in Doria A.