Show PRICE FIVE CENTS CLARA GLARA COITS m u SUGIE SUICIDE Noted Actress Ends Life by fay Sending Bullet Bulet Through Brain SHE SHE- FIRED THREE SHOTS Friends Can Assign No Mo Motive for Her Self SeIf tion Baltimore Md Md Dec Dee 5 MIss Mh Miss 8 Clara Bloodgood the noted actress and wife of ot William member of ot the tho New York stock exchange committed suicide this his afternoon In the tho Hotel Stafford by firing a n bullet bulet Into her brain Tho The woman tired fired fred three shots She placed paced the revolver In her mouth probably at the third shot and the tho bul bul- let iet plowed through h the roof root of the mouth and lodged In her brain Another An An- other bullet bulet was found imbedded In the ceiling Where the time third shot lodged te is not known Friends of ot tho lie actress can assign no motive for her self destruction hut but It Is la sal said here tonight that Miss Bloodgood Bloodgood Blood- Blood good ha had In In the Knickerbocker r TrU Trust t company In Now New Xo York and could not draw a cent from her hor account Miss Mia Bloodgood's s 's married life la 18 account declared to have been admirably peaceful and happy happy hap hap- py and she ha had no reverses In her sta stage e career creer Short Shortly before beCore Miss Bloodgood destroyed destroyed de de- de- de herself sho she Is said hersel by the tho to hotel ho ho ho- tel people to have hoe dispatched a telegram tele tele- gram rm to her husband at nt the Hotel Lorraine Lorraine Lor Lor- raine N. 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Instructing him to turn turnover turnover over oer to her attorneys the contract she had made mado with ih the Tho The most mystifying phase of the tra tragedy Is that all al day ay long the actress was In itt It the tho best of ot spirits spiris She chatted merrily with wih William Courtenay ht her leading man who has been appearing with her In The Truth fruth at the acad acad- emy Early today Mr Courtenay Courtena Invited In Miss Bloodgood to witness a a. matinee performance o of Society and tho the Bulldog Bull Bun do dog pl playing at Albaugh's theater The Thc actress made her toilette with tho the us usual us us- ual uni extreme care and appeared In the style for tOI which she sha hf has always hi been nn noted Wont Went to Matinee Miss Bloodgood sat st through two acts of ot the te play laughing at every Jest and visibly absorbed in the te performance performance Now and then item she sho would turn to Mr Courtenay with some quip or criticism of ot some Bomo particular players player's method As the third act net was being set tho the actress said she sho had become rathor rather tired and needed some Bore rest to to fortify herself fo fc fe tho the evening performance of ot her tier own play to the tho hotel In the same samne blithe bUthe mood the tho actor and ond cl dress els ha had dinner to together ether ties Miss Bloodgood then I retired to her room presumably for or a short abort sleep She Sho left ler no word with the clerk dork about the tho to time sh sho wished to t b be called cl t 1 I. the d 0 T eort t ten et- et et ant stage manager was waa wD running runninG about besting for time tho tle I Ft star tr r. r Bloodgood was not in her room She was not behind the tho wings wIng nor upon the tho stage Dol Hell By Hunts lunt At with wih the tIle orchestra playing the sta stage e manager became desperate delpert and called the time Stafford on the tho telephone telo- telo phone asking asking tho the ro rossor sor for tr mr Mis Miss A bell bel boy was vaa hurried bUrled to her room with wih a passkey He Hedl dl did not need the kc key for tho the door was wan a unlocked Pushing it I inward vard he found that a 1 lor large e runk had been on placed about six inches from rein tho timo door deer In the center of at tho room stood Miss in her ber night robe Her hair was dishevelled and seemingly she had Just risen The boy with a mumbled apology Quick quickly shut the door and ond had gone about two feet teet toward the tho stairway when he heard a shot eliot shot The Tho Te lad lAil got down clown to the round ground floor noor I two steps at a time and panted up toI to I the tho clerks clerk's desk telling telling- him some ono one had been murdered Manager Bonnes Bownes and the tho clerk bounded upstairs Flinging Flinging Fling Fling- ing open the door they saw the white garbed pain racked nicked figure of time the noted actress lying upon the bed bod Tn in her right hand with the death grip she clutched the tho revolver Medical aid was futile for Miss Bloodgood had died scarcely two minutes min mm- utes after she had sped the tho bullet into her brain On the tho bureau near the bed lay the Jewels and pocketbook of the tho actress and beside them was a car sealed scaled letter addressed to her husband letter will not bo be opened until morning when the coroner will discover its con con- tents A local undertaker took charge of the body while Mr the tho husband hue hus band of the dead actress was telegraphed telegraphed tele tele- graphed for Ho He at once engaged a special train and bv by 10 o'clock was speeding toward Baltimore |