The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-05-14
Ideal Unions Oft
End in Casualty;
Jealousy Motive
Rejected Suitors Add to
Toll of Tragedy in
Marital Smashups.

LOS ANGELES. - The violent
deaths tiese recently of beautiful
Kay Larson Nolan, 26, photogra-
piers model, and her husband,
DR.. Stuart Elliott Nolan, al, bril-
liant surgeon, threw into high rellef
the fact that homogeneous all too ire
quently end in irrevocable tragedy.
Lovely titian-haired Kay, bride OF
three months, was found dead on
her bed. On the breast of her nude
body was curious plaque OF CHI
nese jade. In the bathroom lay the
body of her husband. Arteries In
their arms had been severed. 20
lice say DR.. Nolan anaesthetized his
young wife, slashed the blood YES
sells and then took his own LIE In
the same fashion.
Thus ended a union which seemed
ideal to their friends.
Jealousy to Blame.
Yet theirs is far from being 1so-
lated cases. Similar honeymoon trag-
edies were the mysterious death by
pistol bullet of Zachary Smith Rey.
nolCs, heir to an enormous tobacco
fortune, and husband of the former
Libby Holman, torch singer; the
death, after a fistic brawl, OF Pot
ter, D'Orsay Palmer, while on a
second honeymoon with his pref
ty luke joint bride of few months
before; the fatal plunge from a IA
story apartment house window OF
Adelaide Moffett's first bridegroom,
David ("Winkie') Brooks. and most
recently, the strange death OF
wealthy Mrs. Ada Torrance, while
ON a honeymoon in Mexico with
her explorer-husband, DR.. Arthur
Torrance.
Jealousy often is the motivating
drive back of the Staying of brides.
Rejected suitors, seeking revenge,
take to firearms, as in recent case
irr Chicago. In September, Mrs.
Lee Sherman, rs, was shot and
killed in he r honeymoon apartment
by Ronald loft, 35, whose suit she
had rejected, nine hours after her
mari iage to Sherman. ...s
loft had left his wife and year
old baby out of infatuation for Mrs.
Sherman, then Kay Weber, but she
chose Sherman. loft awaited their
return from the wedding and opened
fire on the bride. He then killed
himself. ,.- .g..ar z.~. ..ar
Cannot Account for 1t.
Los Angeles authorities have been
at loss to account for the dual
tragedy in the home of DR.. Nolan.
He and his bride were known to be
deeply in love with each other.
"This is our great romance" said
DR.. Nolan; 1--WE cannot live apart"
A note in the surgeons writing
gave the name and address of Mrs.
Nolan's father, Albert R. Larson, OF
Santa Monica, and said that she
wanted to give him this message:
THAT she sends her love, and
that we both agree this is the only
thing for us TO do"
Still only partly explained is the
death by bullet wound of Zachary
Smith Reynolds, 20, in his palatial
home at Winston-Salem, N. c., in
1882. Guests at gay house party a
few months after his marriage to
brown eyed Libby Holman were
startled to hear shot. They rushed
| to his room to find Reynolds on the
floor, dying. Kneeling beside him
was Miss Holman, 26 years old. Sew.
en- months later she gave birth to
| a son, Christopher.
The police records of every Amer.
| lean city contain similar instances
of bridal bliss that has been shat
| tered by violent and sudden death