Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-03-20
PRETTY MODEL AND
TECH STUDENT DIE.
IN S U|CIDE PACT.
"vENus OF STUDIOS" WEARlEo
OF LIFE, TAKES POISON -
YOUNG ENGINEER FOLLOWS
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HER TO eRoVE-6oTH LEAVE
LETTERS TELLING OF PLANS
TO SLAY SELVES.

Boston, Mass March 20-Death by
poison ended the flight OF otto EIaldor
Larsen. senior at the Massachusetts
Institute OF Technslogy, from the gay
party az which Pauline Virginia Clark,
Divorce and once an artist model,
noted for her beautiful figure, ended
her life early last Thursday morning.
His body was found Sunday in the
Fenway, behind the Museum OF Fine
Arts Apparently he had been dead
only a short time.
Larsen last Wednesday night was
one of the guests at a lively party
in Miss Clarks apartment
In the early hours OF Thursday
morning Miss Clark who had been
laughing and drinking, suddenly col
lapsed and fell dead, 1t was found
that she had taken poison,
Larsen. highly excited, seized the
bottle, in which some of the poison
remained. ran from the apartment, no.
tilted a physician, and then disappear
ed.
Two letters signed Larsen assert.
ing that Miss Clark had long intended
to commit suicide and that Larsen
had supplied her with poison, We're
received by Boston newspaper and
Medical Examiner Magrath several
hours after his body was found
IT. the letter To the examine Lar
sen said that Miss Clark requested
him several weeks ago to procure some
poi on so she might take her own life.
tT q a laf
"ey.ru ctiug from her the promise that
ehc would not use il until her mother
came home. ] then prepared for her
solution Of strong poison
The letter related how Larsen had
ire. Miss Clark six weeks ago and
they had become intimate friends 1t
said that Miss Clark told him OF her
excessive depression and of various in
cidents in her life.
81 wondered how she resisted so
long the temptation that death really
is" the letter added.
The letter then described how he
suspected Miss Clark was going to
break her word and take posion among
her guests on Wednesday night, and
although she again promised to defer
her act. she suddenly stood up and
drank the fatal poison.
~ called a doctor and attempted 70
assist her the letter continued.
When I saw that she was dead, |
left because | would not give NV
self up to be grilled by nonunderstand-
ing police | took the remainder OF
the poison with me. it was my prop
cty after Miss Clark was dead
II had intended to take poison be-
fore | met Miss Clark. She was the
worlds finest woman"
The parties in Miss Clarks apart
ment, the letter said. were not wild
Tevels, but were only for the purpose
of killing the moroseness Of her life
In his letter to the editor of a BOs-
ton paper, cOndemHiug the printing Of
stories Of scandal, he advised that the
editor also take poison when your i'll
ferioritv becomes too conscious in
your mind, if you have one"
II was Larsens first love affair.
friends said tonight He came to
America in 1918 as one Of ten stu
dents sent to America by the Nor
wegian government to study Ameri,
can engineering methods. Until last
January he knew no girls and ap-
piled himself diligently to his studies.
Then he met Miss Clark and their
attachment grew steadily. Quarrels
between the young woman and rich
friends over Larsen's popularity re-