New Britain herald., 1929-12-11
PROMINENT COUPLE
 IN SUICIDE PACT

(Conunucd From First ragc) 10 Albert $. Bigelow. now Il gradu. ate student at Harvard and for mer Harvard hockey player,
 The studio at the Hotel pcs Artistes in which the shooting oc- cured was that of stanley Mortim- CT. Jr.. who said he had met Cros- ly in q Paris cafe five years ago and that Crosby sometimes used his apartment when ill New York. He described Crosby as poet.
 Tenant Finds Couple
 He said Crosby phoned him ye-- torday afternoon asking for usc O. the apartment and that hy hJI given his consent. He arrived with Mrs. Bigclow shortly aft"rwarI When Mortimer returned about 4;'5 o'clock last night ho found the door locked and bolIcd. and receiving no answer 10 his ringing. notified 'A, suUcrintcndcnt. who forced Hu .u- trance. Tn" bodies of Ihc two W"r' then touud.
 Mrs. Crosby was notified a th. Savoy Plaza shortly after midni=hs 0. the finding Of her husbands hod.. Both bodies were taken 70 tho morgu".
 Mortimer said hr knew n,le of Crosby's private life and that Re-. lad known Mrs. Bt@elow only slightly. Police said they were toll Crosby had spent much time abroad. principally in England and Franc:
 Radiogram Found Jn Body
 In his pocket the police found wallet containing $52&.75, visiting card reading, Harry Crosby 70 Hue De Lille, Paris" and -adjo- gram addressed to him aboard tn" steamship Maurctania and du1rI Nov. IS. It read:
 Gable George when you arrive and where l can telephone you i'm lncdiately. Am impatient.
 (Signed) JOSEPHINE"
 A man who identified himself a~ a second cousin of Crosby appeared al the West GSth street police sta ton early this morning, accompau- id by Frank l.. Polk. former un- der secretary of state.
 Party Arranged For Woman
 Miss Margaret Burgess, at whose Park avenue apartment Mrs. Big low had been staying, said she WAS college Chum Of the dead woman. She had arranged q party in her honor for last night.
 Crosby's mother l. the former Henrietta NJ. Grew. sister of the late Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan. aL the time of his marriage, Crosby was engaged in the banking busi neas. His wife had been divorced in February. 1922. from Richard s Peabody, of Duchess county, New York. and has two children by her first marriage.
 Crosby Publisher
 Shortly after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Crosby went to Paris. where they subsequently, made their home. They were the proprietors Of the Black Sun Press on Rue Cardinale. Paris, which has publish ed works by James Joyce and E,u- gene Jolas, who was an associate ot
 
 described as 'an international quar- terly for creative experiment.
 Crosby. who had an independent income. at ono time explained he made his home in Paris because fin America the stars are all sullocated inside" and because he preferred 'PerihclOn to Aphelion.'
 bt were that "by living outside of America New York can still remain for mo the city of a thousand and one nights" and that rivers of suicide arc more inviting than the prairics of prosperity"
 Mrs. BigoloW. when her body was found, had an orchid pinned to her caracul coat. In her pocket book police found S1.6S and a lip stick. She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs. Arthur C. Eotch of Bos- ton. Her husband is the son ot Mir and Mrs. Albert E. BigeloW ot Brooklinc. Mass
 Mortimer. in whose apartment the shooting took place. is q DOT trait painter. a Princeton graduatt and q member Of the most eNclu- sile clubs in New York.
 Boston, Dec. Ii CP) - Word wa. received here last night Of tho death of Henry Grew Crosby. %2 and Mrs. Josephine Eotch Eg"IoW %, in an artists studio in N"N York city in double shoon. which police said was suicide pact. Crosby was the son of Stcph"t Nan Ecusselaer Crosby, a banker He was graduate of Harvard anc world war veteran and had r" r.utly been connected with pub fishing concern in Pans. Franc" Mrs Bi-elow was th" Wif' of Al hort g E;gclow. a former lIarNHr' hockey player. They War" naTIr'