Evening star., 1934-07-15
MISSING MORALS
WITNESS |SFOUND.
June De Long Gives IndlCa.
tions of Having Taken
Poison.

Copyright. 1924, by the Associated Press
LOS ANGELES. July l4-Da2ed-
June Delong. 24-year-old blonde Wit
ness for the State In the Hollywood
morals" case. was found wandering
on a street here tonight. eight hours
after she disappeared from her apart
meut. leaving a note declaring her
intention to commit suicide.
She said the reason she escaped
from under guard was that Gloria
was in trouble and l felt so sorry for
her
Gloria is Gloria Marsh. young movie
extra player. who with Dave Allen.
former head OF the Central Casting
Bureau. is on trial on charges Of
participating in an immoral party
with Miss Delong in the latter's apart
ment last April
Recognized by Writer.
Miss Delong was seen stumbling
along the street by Nellise Child,
mystery novelist and playwright, who
picked her up and took her to her
husbands place of business nearby.
There the husband. Frank Gerard
automobile sales manager Immediately
recognized the girl. whose disappear
snce had caused a Statewide search.
The couple made the flaxen-haired
actress comfortable in their auto
mobile and called the district attor-
ney'S Office.
The young actress recognized Gerard.
but was unable to talk coherently.
She mumbled something about having
been a reader of the Bible and trying
to be a good girl
Miss Child. the author of Murder
Comes Home" and other detective
novels, said she recognized Miss
Delong from photographs she had seen
in the newspapers.
Miss Delong was found within two
blocks of her former apartment, the
place, she has testified, where she
engaged in the alleged party last
April 26 with Dave Allen and Gloria
Marsh.
Throughout the day. since the time
Marjorie Fairchild district attorneys S
reported Miss Delong
from the Hollywood apart
ment. where she was being kept under
pending resumption of the
trial Monday, policemen and plain
clothesmen had patrolled the neigh
borhood.
Poisoning Indicated.
Il
gave every indication of having taken
poison, which she threatened to do
in a tear-stained suicide note found
in the vacant apartment upon Miss
return from a 15-minute
The district attorneys investigator
had kept Miss Delong under surveil-
lance ever since the actress, whose
hands have doubled" for many of
Hollywood's leading feminine stars,
gave the testimony before the county
grand jury which resulted in the in
dictment of Allen and Miss Marsh.
Miss Delong spent all of yesterday
OIL the witness stand in Superior
Judge B. Rey Schauer's court telling
details of the asserted immoral party
Most OF the afternoon Yves used in
severe crosS-examination of the flaxen-
haired witness by Defense Counsel
Jerry Geisler, and she frequently
showed indications of nervousness un-
der the intensive grilling
She was to have resumed the stand
for a continuation of the cross-exam
inn tinn naYt Monday
In her note. replete with the trag-
edy of thwarted ambition in Holly
wood, Miss DeLong said: When you
read this, I'll be dead"
Miss Fairchild had stepped out to
buy luncheon just before noon. She
returned to find Miss DeLong gone
and the note folded around a picture
of the girl on a dressing table.
Turned Against Her.
Yes, 1 had many so-called friends,
friends that told me they loved me.
raved about my beauty but now thai
I'm il trouble, they all turned against
me like a tiger in the woods" the
note said.
Ii life is only a dream and an
I prefer death, as life is not
stronger than death. l must stop as
this paper is already wet with tears.
Her note disclosed she had been
writing a novel containing warnings
to thousands of girls throughout
the world not try to get into pictures. !"
Men will make a toy of you, but
when you won't play any more, they
will put you in JAIL like Dave Allen
did me" she wrote.
The remainder of Miss De Longs
note follows:
Give this picture to the newspa-
perS. I want to be dead and with
my mother and the smile from my
picture away.
MY ambition and only hope of
living was to sell my writings. star
in my own picture, become rich so
that I could help thousands of poor
people with my money.
In my novel it will tell thousands
of girls throughout the world not to
try to get into pictures.
Give my car and everything / have
to Gloria and tell her I still love her.
lOPC Aly liiOlL4C4 ID Hd4lAlIS AOi
me, so I must go.
Thanks for being considerate to
me. thank you again for saying that
you can see lot OF good deep down
in my heart"
Miss Delong sat in the witness chair
yesterday and with hardly any
prompting from Prosecutor Veitch.
told the jury in the crowded court
room all details Of the party she said
she arranged for Allen April %.
Miss Delong said she had been try
ing to get work in pictures for three
years. The transcript of her testi-
mony before the grand jury that in
dicted Allen and Miss Marsh con-
tained the assertion that she be-
lieved it was impossible for a girl 70
obtain employment as an extra in