Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-11
FAITHFUL GIRL s.
DRINKING PROBED
Prosecutor Reveals She Was
Treated for Alcoholism
Shortly Before Death.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. June l1-Investigation
of tie drowning Of Miss Starr Faithful
25-year-old Greenwich Village beauty,
was complicated today by the revelation
that she had been treated for acute
alcoholism at Bellevue Hospital
Hospital records showed she was
taken to Bellevue March 20 from a
hotel, where ambulance surgeons sad
they found her with man who said
he was her husband She was admitted
t. the hospital under the name Of
Marie Collins.
District Attorney Eiyin n. Edwards Of
Nassau County has rot abandoned his
theory that she was Slain He said
descriptions OF two men would be sent
10 police with a request for their arrest,
Information il his possession, he said,
warranted putting the case bcf-re the
grand jury. NJ. Edwards Yesterday pr
dictcd the arrest Of "a prominent poll
tician." and visited Boston in that COO
nection There vas no arrest. Ed
wards virtually eliminated the politician.
Thinks She Was Beaten.
He said his theory vas that Miss
Faithful was Beaten into -unconSc!ou :
ness, then held under water until she
drowned. Her BODY was found in thu
surf at Long Beach. Long Island, last
Monday. She had been missing from
hey home since FIijay.
There were numerous bruises on the
body and On autopsy revealed death
was caused by drowning. No traces Of
alcohol or opiates were found in the
body
Pursuing their inve 7tigati1n of the
girls relations with members of the
crews of the Cunard liners, Mauretania
and Franconia. police sent radiogramS
asking statements from DR.. G. Jameson
Carr. ships doctor Of the Franconia:
the chief officer and other members CT
the crew, concerning what they knew
Of the incident OF May 80, when Miss
Faithful was put aboard a tug after
the liner had started down the bay.
She was described as being intoxicated
at the time.
Escorted From Pier.
Her last visit to the Cunard pier was
last Friday the Cay she disappeared.
Police were tod that she was escorted
from the Mauritania in an intoxicated
condition by a steward and placed in
a taXiCab.
Edwards said detectives had found a
diary belonging to Miss Faithful,
which he expected would throw light on
her activities and acquaintance. He
refused 10 reveal what the diary con-
tanned, but said it strengthened his
theory of murder.
Stanley z. Faithful. chemist. Starts
stepfather: Mrs. F3ithfull and Miss
Elizabeth Faithful STAIRS sister. were
questioned by Edwards until late hour
last night
Faithful told newspa pers that shortly
before Starr was sent to Bellevue he
mixed four cocktails for her and a
young woman friend at his home. The
family were not prohibitionists, he add
ed. and he being chemist had
warned the girls about bootleg liquor.
After mixing the drinks, he left the
apartment.
Says She Drank All.
The young women who was with
Starr when the drinks were mixed later
told Faithful. he said, that Starr had
drunk them all and this young woman
introduced Starr to a Joseph Collins,
presumably the man figuring in the
Bellevue recorcs. Faithful denied he
hid named a politician to Edwards.
Services for Starr were held yester-
day, among these attending being Frank
w Wyman of Boston, the father of the
two Faithful girls.
Edwards indicated he might visit
Boston again. In h visit yesterday he
interviewed Francis Peabody Hamlin a
cruise director OF the Cunard Lite.
Hamlin had met Starr on a West Indien
cruise. He tod Edwards he had seen
hor when sha was put off the Franconia.
He believed Sterr was in love with him,
but he did not raciprocate the affection.