New Britain herald., 1929-06-10
Margaret Lewrsnce and
 Louis Beanisoa Found Dead Vague Not.s Dis- !. -cevsred

Nv York. Juas 10 .0D-Marsaret LANrpaos, stsse star and widow Of Wallecs Ed4tassr. was shot to asatk In hsr East tlst street pent AsSa epertmsat yestsrday. <x
 a1yavlsd bsside the bed on which her bedy was found was the hedy Of Leuis Dsanissn, stage and screen actsr. 10th had been shot through the left breast. On the bsA was ! heavy calibre pistol.
 Police said Bennison evidently had shot Mia Lawrence thea killed himself. A suicide Agresment was hintsa in two notss found in the apartment. One note pinaed on | door said: The sunset hasa heart. Look for us thsre." The handwrit- ing of this. note was identified as that of Mss Lawrence. ltwas sisn- sd ''Tianna-"
 The other note was on ono of the twin beds in the room where the bodies were found. It was unsign- ed and read: Please notify M-. Au@ea sat the Lambs club at once"
 FuunA Dy Ftssad
 ! The bodies were found by Mrs- Gertrude Chalair. | friand sf Miss Lawrsnce. who let hsrself into the apartment after no one responded to her ring. Miss Lawrence was in . night gown. Except for bare feet Bennison was fully clothed. ..
 Empty liquor bottles and glasses were strewn about the attractively furnishsd apartment. Bennett Mus. sen. author and actor, identified the pistol n one belonging to Bennison by the initials tL. B." on the hau- dle. He said the actor was subject to suicide mania after periods Of drinking.
 Saw Actor Wave Pistol
 Mrs. Chalair said she had called 1t the psnt house last Wednesday and while she was visiting with Mss Lawrence, Bennison came out of another room waving pistol.
 This will finish us both" Mrs. Chalair quoted the actor n saying. She said Miss Lawrence remon- &trated with him and he put the . pistol in his pocket. , Miss Lawrence was in her for- tieth year. Her stage career was marked by quick and impressive success, although its last months were stormy. marred by profession al and domestic difficulties.
 Her Arst professional appearance was in stock company in Phila- delphia before she was ls years old.
 She scored | great success in 1911 in | Broadway production of "over Night" the beginning of her star dom.
 Married Patent Lawyer
 In 1913 she married Orson D. Mum, patent lawyer. and retired from the stage for seven years. There were two daughters. Eliza. beth and Louise. now about l% and lz years old.
 . She returned to the stage in 1S1s In Tea for Three" and again won acclaim. The next year she played . with Wallace Eddtnger in Wedding Bells" and later appeared in ''Trans- planting Jean" After engagements In Lawful Larceny and ''The End less Chain" she appeared during the season of 1923 in 'Secrets."
 In 1922 she was divorced from Mum. In 1927 she married Wall ! lace Eddtngsr. widely known coms- diaA. in Los Angeles.
 suspsnded By Equity
 Her. last important stage appsar- ancs vas in "Posssssien,' in which she wss being starred by Edgar selwyn. She dropped out of the cast and last November was sus- penAAd by the Actors Equity asso- ciation for six months and lined two weeks salary. The charges hled by 9elwya were not made public. but 'n Her reply Miss Lawrence said she had been forced to give up her part becGuse of injuries in a taxicab ac- cident.
 Later in the same month she filed suit for divorce. The suit was pend ing when Eddinser died January [ last tn Pittsburgh. Pa. where he was acting.
 Miss LaHrence's mother-in-law brought suit to have the actress re- moved as executrix Q her husbands sc5.00o estate.
 The elder Mrs. Eddinger accused her daughter-in-law of "drunkeness and improvidence." Surrogate Fo- ley ruled that the charges had not been sustained and upheld Miss Lawrence's. right to administer the estate.
 Mrs. Eva Lawrence. the actress's mother. came from the family home fin Philadelphia when she learned of her daushter's death.
 i, Benntsen was 4s years old. He eAm4 from northern California, where hs worked as cowboy, training which he later capitalized in a4is staSs and scrsen carssr. He played with Mrs. Lsslis Carter In the rad production of ''TAs Heart of Masylsna" and later was in steck in SeA Francisco. Salt Lake City anA Oakland. He was Miss Law rence's isading man in '"The HsAv- on Tappers."
 Police said they learned he had ! wife and | child in San Francisco. A brother, Andrew Bsnnison, is con- nected with hlm studio in Los Angeles.
 Lipman Will Graduate
 From Cornell June 17
 Among the IT students frem New England who. will be graduated from