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we called on Helen's lawyer. John
Condor. He told Helen what to
say and then we called on Babe.
He was in Christy Walsh's office
and Walsh sat through the inter-
view, but he didn't say anything.
Babe said to Helen, i want
you to give me a divorce.
"Well, Helen said to him--and
Christy Walsh will tell you this
10 so:
Insisted on 100000
"'AIl right. I'll go to Reno and
get q divorce quietly SO yOnr repu.
tation In baseball won't be ruined,
but you've got to pay my expenses
out there and give me one hundred
thousand dollars
"And Babe told her to go to
hell; that he had given her enough
money already"
Mrs. William Woodford, sixty
year.old mother of the dead woman,
said she was familiar with this
story and that it was all true.
$50. YOU see, my daughter didn
marry DIR. Kinder" 50,
And she added, dramatically. with
a fierce gleam in her ordinarily
ssHeIen never died by accident.
She was done to death"
The Babe. however, denies seeking
Z divorce. ''It isn't true" said hutn
ssthat's all I have to say about the
scharges at the. present time,
Dr. Kinder had come out OF an
interview with Chief of Police Jonh
Millmore with a statement by the
chief that "there are no charges
AGAINST DIR, Kinder and as far as
the police are concerned Mrs.
Ruth,s death was the result Of an
unfortunate accident" Overloaded
electric wires in the living room
below the bedroom, where her Doay
was found, caused the fire, IN the
view of authorities.
The dentist told Chief Milimore
that he had never married MIS-.
Ruth, He said he had given out
the report to cover up her visits
to his home. He said his brother,
William F. Kinder, jr., who listed
Mrs. Ruth as Mrs, Kinder" Tor
4he death certificate was innocent
IN believing that his brother was
married last August in Montreal
Watertown police hold the brother
blameless.
Reports that two young women
ana 4 man were seen running near
tha Kinder home at the time Oh
the fire proved "a dud" in the
4nvestigation. Police Sergt. John j..
Igoe. of Watertown, explained that
ne had interviewed the trio and
found that they had been on
Wayerly Avenue near the Kinder
home on Quincy Street. had all
seen the fire at the same time
and had run to find fire alarm
box. ",
Laughing and playing about with
her playmates, making snoWmen
and skiing down hills in Wellesley,
little Dorothy Helen Ruth even
TODAY does not know of the
tragedy that forever took away
that brown-eyed woman she called
mother"
Ruth To See Child
Ruth has teiephoned authorities
at the school that he was planning
to see the child before he left Bos.
ton, it was learned.
Members of Mrs. Ruth's family
engaged Attorney Judson Hannigan
"a carry on an investigation Of the
death OF Mrs. Ruth following the
funeral. The family branded as
false a statement that Mrs. Ruth
had ever used opium tablets.
Another important fact surround.
9t,o the death of Mrs, Ruth and the
Investigation that followed into her
life and of those closest to her was
the discovery that box containing
records was taken from the house
at Watertewn. by police following
the fire.
This box, it is said. contains a
copy Of the birth record of Dorothy
Ruth and a copy of Mrs. Ruth's
marriage certificate when she, was
the bride of the Babe.
Was in Stupor
According to the State and fire
officials, Mrs. Ruth was apparently
in a stupor when the fire broke
through the floor of her bed
room. The bed clothing was neatly
piied on q chair and Mrs. Ruth
was either sitting in a chair or
lying on the bed in a dazed con-
dition, the investigators believe.
The fact that the woman's body
was found within three feet of the
door leading into a hallway that
was free of smoke and fire, indi-
Gated that she did not possess her
pormal faculties as otherwise she
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