The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
HIGH SOCIETY
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CITY SUICIDE
Mystery Woman Talked of
Hometown in Life, Says
Former Employer.
WORKED AS DOMESTIC
Coroner Continues Search
for Solution, With
Meager CIeWS.

Working in an atmosphere of
mystery, romance and perhaps
mania, Coroner Fred w. Vehling to-
day bent again to solution of the
suicide Of a woman in her apart
ment at 2010 North Meridian street
Saturday.
Whether the woman, identified
tentatively as Miss Lillian Wilmer,
alias Sawyer, was connected with a
prominent eastern family, as she
limited to a family for which she
worked last summer, or afflicted
with a mental disease that gave rise
to illusions of mystery and glamour
the coroner does not know.
Today he is running down another
clew taken from cryptic message
In code she left in her suitcase, and
connected with a key, probably to a
safety box somewhere, which the
coroner found among her posses
sions.
Bank Is Questioned
He will query officials OF the
Foreman State National bank, in
Chicago, to determine whether a
safety box is rented there under
any Of the names appearing in the
strange message.
Yelling said he received an
anonymous phone call today from a
woman who professed to know the
suicide victim. She said the woin-
an had come to her house recently
and applied for a position as
nurse.
The woman gave vefling the
name of another woman, who, she
said, lived on North Illinois street,
and said he would find out plenty
about it." The name given Vehling
does not appear in the city direc-
tory.
Deduction that the box may be
in that institution came from the
initial work of the message, when
decided: "FOREMSTATE."
Names in the message were lisa
bel Mckenzie, Albertson and Nc
Kee." Another name, Dearborn, u
the coroner said, may be a, clew to
the bank, telephone number OF
which is Dearborn 7700.
Identification Of Miss Wilmer was
made late Monday by MIR. and Mrs.
Herbert Bloen1ker, for whom the
woman worked three months as a
domestic servant. Bloemker, who
lives at 1440 Central avenue, is a
deputy county surveyor.
However, today Mrs. Bloemker
told The Times she still was a little
uncertain as to whether the dead
woman was the Miss Sawyer who
worked for her last summer.
Bemoaned Her State
Mrs. Bloemker said the woman
applied for work after having been
sent to her home by the Y. w. c. A.
employment service. She called
herself Lillian Sawyer.
Miss Sawyer frequently ben1oaned
her state, Mrs. Bloenlker said, often
with the declaration that for moth
ing in the world would let my
family know what I have come to-"
Her conversation was filed with
illusions to social life of Baltimore
and Washington, and she told Mrs.
Bloemker she was a member OF a
prominent Baltimore family.
f. When Van Lear Black, wealthy
Baltimore publisher, fell from his
private yacht and was drowned
Aug. 20, Miss Sawyer told Mrs.
Bloemker she knew Black well and
had been on his yacht several times.
Talked Of Capital Society
Constantly she talked Of political
and social life in Washington,
speaking of "the senator" but never
celebrating on the man, or offer
ing any clews to her connection
with him, according to Mrs. Blooms
ker.
She wore clothing that apparent
~ was expensive, but well worn.
Her diction was cultured, but she
drank frequently, Mrs. Bloemker
told the coroner.
Several times she spoke Of divorce
proceedings, and always was wait
ing for money to be sent to her.
Mrs. Bloemker said. After she left
the Bloenker home, nothing was
heard from her until she phoned
Mrs. Bloemker after Jan. 1 to say
she was employed as a nursemaid
on the north side.
Well Supplied With Money
Coroner vehling tried Monday to
identify the key by numbers on it,
but the key manufacturing COM
pany in Chicago said the numbers
were merely mechanical detail.
When found in her gas-hlled
apartment Saturday, Miss Wilmer
had s225 pinned in her clothing,
and $500 in a downtown bank, in
which she opened the account only
the dsv 0reee6iT7cy her SI1icide