The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-24
DEAD SICK OF
IT ALL BEAUTY
WROTE DOCTOR
MisSiveS Given Jury Brand
ed Forgeries by Girls
Stepfather.
lAYSTERY is UNSoLvED
Authorities Still SkepticaI
Eccentric Young Woman
Took Own Life.
En- United Press

two letters said to have been writ
ten by Starr Faithful to DR.. G
jameson Carr, for whom she pro-
fessed "a mad and insane" attach.
ment. and which indicated her in.
tenticn Of suicide, the battling death
of the beautiful Greenwich Village
girl seemed no nearer solution to.
day.
The two missives, presented to the
Nassau county grand jury yester-
day by DR.. Carr, ships doctor
aboard the Cunard liner Franconia
told Of her unrequited love for hin
and told of carefully laid plans by
the eccentric 25-year-old girl to enc
her life by means which would pre-
vent Illustration.
However, District Attorney Elvir
y. Edwards, who has chung to a the
Org Of murder since the girls body
vas found on Long Beach more thar
two weeks ago, declared he still
was skeptical that Starr had taker
her own life.
Branded FOrgeriesu
Stanley E. Faithful also held to
the murder theory today and
charged the letters were forgeries
He trembled with indignation when
he was shown the missives written
in round, graceful script, and de-
clared:
The letters are forgeries. That's
all can say"
Apparently more agitated than
at any time since he last saw his
stepdaughter on the Friday morn
ing she left home never to be seen
alive again, Faithful denied he had
any name to suggest in connection
with his charge.
Edwards announced today that he
Intends to continue his investigation
along the lines of the murder
theory and that the grand jury will
be summoned again Friday to hear
additional evidence. Inspector
Harold r. King, who has continued
TO refrain from expressing an opin-
ion one way or another, said his
mind was still open on whether
Starr had committed suicide or had
been murdered.
Carr Gets Famed Counsel
Or. Carr, who voluntarily brought
the two letters, and a third-a for.
NAL apology from Starr for her &C.
tons aboard the Franconia on MAY
%, when she is alleged to have beer
taken off the vessel in midStream In
an intoxicated ALREADY
made public, to this country from
England, was accompanied By
his attorney, Samuel Untermeyer,
famed attorney, whom he once at
tended during severe illness
aboard the Aquitania.
What was considered the most
important of the letters was posted
at the Grand Central Annex at 4
o'clock on June 4, the day preceding
Stars disappearance. 1t revealed
the girls admiration for the chips
doctor and announced that she
%had only twenty-four hours tc
i've" The letter opens with an in
innate salutation and continues in
emotional terms. 1t read:
II Want Oblivion"
Hello, Bill, old thing:
It's all up with me now. This is
something I am going to put
through. The only thing that both
ers me about-the only thing I
dread, is being outwitted and pre-
vented from doing this-which is
The only possible thing for me
30 do.
If one wants to get away with
murder, one has to jolly we'll keep
ones wits about one. It's the same
with suicide. If I don't watch out
I'll wake up in the psychopathic
ward, but I intend to watch out
and accomplish my end this time
mo ether, allonal or window
humping. 1 don't want to be
manned. 1 want oblivion. If there
Is any after life, it would be a
dirty trick-but I am sure 100000
priests are wrong. That is one Of
those things one knows.
Welcomes FIirtations
Nothing makes any difference
how. I love to eat and I can have
one delicious meal with no worry
over gaining.
Il adore music. am going to hear
some good music. I believe I love
music more than anything. I am
going to drink slowly, keeping aware
every second. Also. am going to
enjoy my last cigaret.
Il won't worry because men fiirt
with me in the streets-I shall en-
courage them-I don't care who
they are.
Il wish got more pleasure sleep
Ing with men, I've always been q
rotten sleeper it's the prelimi-
naries that count with me.
Il Can Be Rude"
1T doesn't matter though. It's
q great life when one has twenty
four hours to live. I can be rude
to people. I can tell them they are
TAT, or that I don't like their clothes.
And I don't have to dread being
b lonely old woman, or poverty, or
obScurity. or boredom. don't have
TO dread living on without even
seeing you, or hearing rumors such
as the women all fall for him. he
entertains charmingly
why in hell shouldn't you'll But
its more than can cope with
this feeling I have for you.
No Other Way Out
i have tried to pose as intellect
nal, thereby to attract you, but it
was not successful, and could not
90 on writing those long, studied
letters. ! don't have to worry, be-
How ] rid myself of