Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-26

Dying at Her Feet.
blew De Trafford took her in his arms for a.
last embrace, not noticing that she open
ing her pocketbook AS they kissed, Alice
placed the muzzle Of the gun against his ribs
and fired. The bullet missing his heart, passed
through his body, finally stopping between his
shirt and vest-lining.
Seeing her reluctant lover apparently dying
at her feet, Alice decided to pursue his spirit
wherever 1t might go and shot herself in the
stomach. The guards, after subdung her
snarlng police dog which seemed to think they
might as well die in peace, rushed them to the
same hospital where, for weeks, they fought
death and finally, both won.
At the trial Raymond shouldered all the
blame, said he had ruined her life and should
have married her in spite of the objections of
his austere family
The Judge imposed a suspended sentence
of six months, fine the equivalent Of four
dollars and gave her back the gun.
President Doumergue of France pardoned
her and even made the State return the four
dollars. Raymond was now free to do what
he had told the court he ought to have done
in the first place, but that gentleman had
changed his mind again
For the next three years the huntress
hunted the hunter over most of the civilized
anu uuClNiiZcO NOAlQ DNAOhC hC ALidAAy gave
himself up at the altar.
After the ceremony he wanted to know
where they would go on the honeymoon. Alice
then confded she had quietly bought the little
love nest where the romance began and there
was where they would 60
For some reason, the idea didn't appeal to
Raymond and they got into a heated argu-
ment over it. In the course of the debate,
which took place in a compartment Of an Eng
fish railroad train, Alice absent-mindedly
reached into her pocketbook
With the speed OF frightened antelope, it
is alleged. her husband jumped up and dashed
out Of that train, and on through the station.
He is said to have kept right going until
he hid himself in the impenetrable wilderness
Of central Australia.
Alice later said there was no pistol in her
pocketbook, at that time, and even IL there
had BEEN she had no thought of using tat
that moment. All she reached into her pocket
book for was a platinum compact, with the
innocent intention of powdering her nose-an
inalienable right OF a modern woman, any
time and anywhere
At any rate, for two years more she hunted
him in vain finally getting word TO her shy
husband in the middle of that central Austria.
liam desert, that all she wanted of him was a
divorce.
When assured that she would say IL with
lawyers ana not bullets, raymond let hlmSeH
be served with the necessary papers.
Alice won an uncontested divorce on
grounds of desertion. cruelty and infidelity
with an unnamed correspondent who must have
been fast traveller
Alice now started to begin life all over
again only to find the once yessing world full
of cold round nos.
For one thing. she had spent much of her
fortune running Raymond ragged and the rest
had mostly been lost. However, poverty
should not prevent her from resuming, in a
modest way her former place in French top
flight society
When she tried it, however, something else
stood in her way
French society leaders let her know in un-
mistakeable terms what they thought of her
behavior no amount OF wealth would have
reconciled them. In her place now reigned the
second Countess de jane, formerly Mrs Sene-
We've Willinger Ryan, to whom went all the
hand-kissing. Even the French equivalent of
cafe society. though curious, regarded her with
thinly-veiled contempt.
IL was the same wherever she went even
in her own Chicago where once she had been
a little queen" The financial situation be-
came pressing. Women who have disgraced
themselves internationally seem to think that
this qualities them TO open a millinery, lin
gerie or other clothing shop.
Alice tried IL in Paris, under the name OF
Gloria Bocher and failed
And so. with all lost, even honor, the girl
who had thrown 1t all away, went back TO the
little farm" and with the same gun put an
end TO one of the most thoroughly misspent
lives on record She was dead when servant
found her.