Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-17
STARR FA|THF U[L
FORECAST DEATH
Detectives Are Told She Ex-
pressed Belief in Letter
to Or. Carr.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June lT.-Detectives
attempting to solve the Starr FAITHFUL
mystery were told today that six days
before the 25-year-old girls body was
found on Long Beach she wrote LETT
ter to q man with whom she 10 believed
to have been In love, declaring:
When you receive this Will be
dead"
Pending further information, no one
in authority would say whether they
believed this indicated Starr contem-
plated suicide or had received threats
against her life. District Attorney Ed
wards has been working on the theory
some one drowned her, possibly to keep
her from talking
The letter, detectives said, was re-
ceived in London after her death by
Or. @. Jameson Carr, ships doctor Of
the liner Franconia.
Expect Carr to Return Friday.
Authorities at Mineola, center Of the
investigation, said today they expected
Carr to return from England Friday,
possibly in time to tell o grand jury on
that day what he knows Of the girl.
Other witnesses have said Starr
boarded the Franconia before it sailed
from New York May 90. She stayed
too long and was taken Of in tug
when the vessel was going down the
harbor.
A taxicab driver said he took her
from the ships pier to her home and
that she was intoxicated and hysterical.
In the letter to Carr, dated June 2,
Starr apologized for her actions, said
she took her own liquor aboard the
vessel and drank 1t too fast, according
to excerpts from the missive previously
made public.
Assistant District Attorney Martin
w. Littleton was in New York today
trying to md blond girl, a depart
ment store clerk, with whom Starr Is
reported to have lunched on the day
Of her disappearance. June 5.
He also was checking on reports that
she took a ride in q mysterious black
automobile" several days previously.
Gets Black Hand Letter.
A black hand letter threatening to
involve him in the Starr Faithful case
unless he paid $500 was received today
by Harry Stoner. artist.
The letter ordered Stoner to leave
the money on q window sill in West
l35th street Friday.
Stoner said today Miss Faithful APP
a month before she disappeared, and he
had not seen her since.
He was present at the farewell party
given for Miriam Hopkins, stage and
screen actress, which Miss Faithful said
she attended the night before she dis
appeared. He did not see Miss Faithful
at the party, and was certain II she
had been there she would have recog-
nized him and spoken.
Stoner, as an acquaintance Of the
girl, was . witness this week before
a grand jury investigating her mystic
rious death.
User Of Sleeping POtiOns.
Evidence that Starr was q constant
user of sleeping potions gave a new
aspect today to the investigation of
her death.
william r. Lind, o druggist Of West
Orange, N. j., said Starr often pur-
! chased sleeping draughts from him. No
prescription Is necessary in New Jer-
sey. The Faithfulls formerly lived In
| West Orange.
DR.. Alexander o. 0ettler, New York
| City toxicologist, has found a trace OF
sleeping potion in Miss Faithfull's
| organs.
Stanley E. Faithful, admitted that
! Starr had used a sleeping drug oc-
! casionally, but claimed 1t was nothing
abnormal.
Police continued search today for
Bruce winston and Jack Greenaway.
! Edwards desires from them information
as to STAIRS movements on June 4.
the day before her disappearance. Her
| body was found in the water OF Long
Beach, Long Island. June Q.