Evening Star Newspaper, April 28, 1929, Page 16

™ Pully P AT A PR DAY AR AARLINS S T w.u.ag.:-‘ 16 *HUNT BOOTLEGEER IN FATAL SHOOTING, Police Seek Light on Death] of Connecticut Man Called Suicide. By the Associated Press. STRATFORD, Conn., legger who police beli light on the fatal shooting of Ol- g April 27— |Family Has One of Finest| Collections of Etchings in Country. Commerce Secretary’s Wife, Fend of Music, Has Aided Young Artists. nection with whose death | 1d widow is being held. Beardslee toid authorities her ushand shot himself because he be- d there was something between her | lof th BY MARGARET HART. Robert Patterson Lamont, wife ccretary of Commerce, shares her & d's interest in art. | The Lamonts have one of the finest Mrs. snd & bootlegger she knew only as | collections of etchings in the country. | “Jim.” An autopsy disclosed that Beardslee | dicd yesterday from a .22-caliber bullet fired into his left temple. marks were discernible. . Beardslee, a former telephone | other phases. her husband held the ance from his head nd_pulled the wife had shot him. Beardslee asserted the shooting | minated a_quarrel over fancied at- tentions paid ber by a bootlegger, whose No powder | piace they had just visited.. After they | bought whisky. she said, the boot- | 2 | mont often entertains artists from the | av legzer drove them both home. Beardslee was the son of wealthy par- | Chicago Civic Opera Co. She has spon- | ents and was looked upon as eccentric. (} Street «z«t Eleventh | It is a well known attraction in their beautiful residence at Lake Forest, near ‘Chltagn. ‘While Secretary Lamont cen- ters his artistic interest on etchings, his wife is actively in touch with art i <‘; She is passionately fond of music and | lends her patronage to outstanding| — she will be sought as a patroness of con- | THE SUNDAY STAR., WASHINGTON, D. C MRS. LAMONT. LIKE HUSBAND. IS KEENLY INTERESTED IN ART| MRS. ROBERT PATTERSON LAMONT. rigger with his left | musical events in Chicago. Music lovers | singers, introducing them at home con- d. The man's dying declaration was | in Washington hailed her coming, and | certs. In addition to the etchings the La-| band’s appointment to the cabinet. 1t is said she got the news first through | French newspapers. A cable from Mr. Lamont ran a losing race with news dis- patches. Mrs. Lamont lost no time re- turning to the United States, but she arrived after the inauguration. | * She is included in the little coterie of | official women classified as “old friends | of Mrs. Hoover.” The acquaintance of | | these two ladies began through the | | mutual engineering interests of their | husbands. |~ Mrs. Lamont was Miss Helen Gertrude | | Trotter of Chicago. When she married Mr. Lamont. in_ 1804, two families of | third generation Chicagoans were united. The Lamont home at Lake Forest is| one of the finest in that section of fine | houses. The entire Lamont family are | | fond of boating, and are expert nshrv-J | men and swimmers. Mrs. Lamont and | her daughters are excellent golfers, also. | Daughter’s Debut Awaited. The appotntment of Mr. Lamont to tie cabinet wes appleuded by the Chicngo colony in Washington. They | are looking forward to the debut of Miss Gertrude Lamont, pretty, talented and 19. Another daughtet’ is Mrs. Chauncey Belknap, New York. A son. | Robert Patterson Lamont, jr., received | the Croix de Guerre and the Military Medal for service in France. He is | married and lives in Chicago. | | "Mrs. Lamont, always a supporter of | philanthropic and welfare movements in | | Chicago, dresses charmingly, and has | grace and poise which fit her well for | | her duties 2s a cabinet hostess. (Copsrigh, 1929 cert and operatic programs here dur- | mont home is filled with art objects of | Borlin Plans Huge Movie Theater. ing the new administration. Has Sponsored Young Artists. In her Lake Forest home Mrs. La- of t sored the debuts of promising young! - e PALAIS ROYAL in Pa | various descriptions from all parts of | the world. M. se during her travels. Lamont collected many BERLIN (#).—Plans have been drawn | | for the biggest movie theater in Europe, | veling is Mrs. Lamon('s principal | equipped with latest sound devices. Th(- fon. She has spent much time | building will also house a abroad during recent years, and she was | will be erected in a crowded working- J when she heard of her hus- class residence section. big cafe and | | by new 3-second way Noted Norwegian Dies. OSLO, Norway (#).—Ellef Ringnes, & brewer, who contributed liberally to polar_expeditions of Nansen, Sverdrup and Amundsen, died here at the age of 6. He financed one of the expeditions which searched for Amundsen last | Bummer aft the latter was lost while icfkl'\g survivors of the Nobile disaster. END oy CORN’ O excuse for painful corns and calluses. 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