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MONDAY EVENINO SDaklanti Crfounc AUGUST 10, 1931 WIDOW TRIED TO RAISE FUNDS TO AVOID ARREST OF 13400 NEEDED Wholesale Death Pact Wipes Out Actor's Family Driven to desperation by financial difficulties which were about to end 'in her arrest for forgery, MRS. FLORINE WALZ WILLIAMS (upper right), widow of EARLE WILLIAMS (upper left), noted motion picture star, entered into a death pact with her aged mother whereby she killed her children and the older woman and and then took her own life. The children were JOAN CONSTANCE (upper center) and EARLE JR. (right inset). Her mother was MRS.

CLARISSE WALZ. (left inset). WILLIAMS died of pneumonia four years ago, leaving a fortune dissipated by Mrs. Williams through bad business advice given her" by an admirer. TO REPAY THER OBTAINED, RE-ELECTION Letters Left by Former Wife of Actor Give Directions for Disposal of All Bodies Up to Date Only Opponent of S.

F. Executive Is Adolph Uhl; Says Friends Urge Him to Retain the Place hreats Received Against Breuning and Curtius Linked to Blasting of Train; Pair to Fly Honm 500 MAYOR ROSSI IN RACE FOR BERLIN BARES CHANCELLOR IS WILLIAMS I TALL I BERLIN, Aug. 10. (UP) Dis-i, ny ANTHONY F. MOITOHET (Continued From Page 1.) der the impression that she was Mrs.

Williams." FORGED DRAFTS FOR $3400 Mrs. Fish's story differed slightly. She eatd Mrs. Williams had Mrs. Cole's bank book, after the nurse entered the employ of the Williams menage three months ago, and had secretly forged drafts and sent them, with the passbook attached, to the Los Angeles bank.

These drafts were honored for a total of $3400 before Mrs. Cole discovered that her account was being drained, Mrs. Fish said. "She became aware of what was happening when the bank mailed the pass book back to her and not to Mrs. Williams," Mrs.

Fish added. "She lmmeditely confronted Mrs. Williams and obtained a confession. Rather than cause an arrest at the time this was last Thursday she gave Mrs. Williams until today to make restitution.

"Saturday night Mrs. Williams admitted that she. had raised only $500 of the $3400. Mrs. Cole left the apartment and announced that ehe would ask a warrant for Mrs.

Williams arrest. "Sunday morning we found Joan and Constance and Earle Williams and Mrs. Walz dead and Florl. Williams dying." John Constance was seven years of age, and Earle four. In a court action in Los Angeles some time ago, Mrs.

Williams as-ae(6d that Wallace Harvey of that citv was the father jf her son. LETTERS CORROBORATE SUICIDE PACT STORY Four letters, wo of them written by Mrs. Williams and two by her mother, which were found In the home, corroborated Mrs. Fish's version of the suicido pact. Mrs.

Williams wrote one of them to Mrs. Fish and the other to Harry a lawyer. Mrs. Walz ha. addressed one of hers to a IT: jSl -y XM''Mf A Attorney Tells of Troubles -That Beset Mrs.

Williams ACTOR BEGAN Letters of Actor's Widqju and Her Mother Tell Last Efforts to Square Accounts 9 and death agreement, say their last goodbyes, and indicate details of the disposition of their bodies and their personal effects. The letters are. to Mrs. Madge Fish, manager of the apartment house in which they lived, to Harry McKenzie, who was Mrs. Williams' attorney, and to two friends of Mrs.

Walz Mrs. William Marcuse of New. Orleans, and Mrs. Blanche. Weill, of New York.

Here are the letters: The four-year struggle against poverty that ended yesterday for Mrs. Florine Walz Williams, widow of Earle Williams, once celebrated stage and screen star, in a murder and suicide pact that snuffed out four lives and included in its sweep, three generations, is revealed in letters to friends and relatives, left by Mrs. Williams and her aged mother, Mrs. Clarissa Walz. In these letters, the two reveal the suicide covery ot a plot io assassinate Chancellor Helnrlch Bruening and Dr.

Julius Curtius aroused concern today. The eovernment received an anonymous letter threatening that neither Bruening nor Curtius, who have been in Rome 'conferring with Italian government leaders, would return to Berlin alive. The nolice connected the letter Wlin tne wreuKUlS Ul mo i' inun- furt-amMain express train at Jueterborg last night. The wreck was believed the work of terrorists who laid an explosive on the tracks and ran wires to a hill nearby, to permit discharge of the blast from a distance. Sixteen per-.

sons were injured. Chancellor Bruening ana Dr. Curtius were advised to return by airplane. They left Rome last night In Premier Benito Mussolini's special train. Riots Follow Election in Germany BERLIN, Aug.

10. VP) Prus-i sia's moderate coalition govern- ment, its fate of late closely identl--. fled with Chancellor Bruening' regime, today stood firm against -the legal and illegal onslaughts ot, its enemies of the right and left. The combined efforts of the Communists and Facists to dissolve the Prussian diet and to compel new elections failed by three and a half million votes at a plebiscite yesterday. Though revolutionist dynamiters; derailed the Basel-Berlin express and the whole of the east central district of Berlin was in a frenzy-of fatal rioting, the police obtained full control of the situation.

Two police captains were slain In the Buelow Platz, Communist center in Berlin, and a steelhelmeter leaner was amen in uoiogne as a result of conflict between author-," Itles and radicals. A score of per sons were believed to be dying In Berlin as the aftermath of a night mat was replete with bullets ana bloodshed. The battle started When Communists secreted on roofstopa prayed police on patrol with bul lets, killing the two officers almost Instantly, The police retal iated with spasmodic gunfire and finally drove their assailants i to cover with possibly a score of them severely wounded. i RADICALS ATTACK POLICE A crowd ot radicals then turned on the police and exchanged shots while they fled. Lorry after Lorry of manned with high powered searchlights and -rifles, rolled into the square and swept it clean.

A veritable state of siege for the assassins and a thorough- way. National Socialists and Commun ists clashed early today In the western district of Schoenburg and cobblestones flew back and forth. Police quelled the disturbance and arrested 78 of the participants. By remaining away from tha polls and refusing to vote, the vast majority of Prussian voters were pictured as having shown they were not Inclined to indulee In fireworks or a new political cam paign as long as the nation la struggling with the economic crisis. aerore Chancellor Bruening de parted for Rome with Foreign, Minister Curtius last week he api-pealed.

to his countrymen to help restore confidence in Germany by demonstrating the country's essential tranquility and internal peace. tWAU IS GUARDED In view of Saturday night's train wrecking near Jueteborg, In which two passengers were injured ser iously and more than a hundred received cuts and bruises when ex plosives derailed eicht cars. th railway police guarded closely the iviunicp-jjeriin line on which the German officials were returning from their conferences with Pr mler Mussolini at Rome. Killer Wakes Couple And Slays Woman ST. LpUIS, Aug, 10.

(UP) A man, the lower part of his face masked With a handkerchief ran the bell o( a rooming house here today, forced his way past the woman who answered his ring, and went directly to a rear bedroom, where John Colo and his wife were sleeping. "Get out of the way." he shouted at Cole after awakening him. He men itred three shots at Cole 32-year-old wife, killing her. The murderer fled in an automobile. Falling Hunter Lands Astride Deer; Gets Ride T7ILLM0RE, Aug.

10.W Edward S. Hicki, locuNleer hunter, stood on a ledge in the Ojai scanning the horizon for hie prey. Hu foot lipped snd down he tumbled, a distance of more than 25 feet. He landed astride the back of a 150-pound buck which had been Minding below him, unteen to the Hicks laid he rode the burl cowboy fashion, holding onto the antlers for I short iliMsnre he-fore being thrown. Then he picked up hit gun and killed deer.

At least, that' Hicks' stnrv which wai substantiated by ninu-ber of the Heer-slayer' rnrtv returning from the mountain dav. Mavor Angelo J. Rossi of San Francisco, today was formally In the race to succeed himself. Ex pected announcement of his can didacy at the November election across the bey came yesterday. To date his only opponent Is Adolph Uhl.

In making his announcement. Mnyor Rossi said he was prompted to declare his candidacy by the many delegations of citizens call inc at the city hall in the last few weeks and expressing confidence in his administration. 'In due course," he said, I will announce the platform on which my candidacy is offered, and will discuss In detail the me proD- lems engaging our as citizens and awaiting solution." Mayor Rossi was appointed Dy the San Francisco Board or super visors to fill out the term as mayor of Governor James Rolph and took office last January when RolDh assumed the governorship. He was first elected a supervisor In 1922. Bervlng a four-year term was defeated for re-election.

but- in 1929 was again elected to the board, leading the Progress committee ticket. i Leo V. Youneworth. Los Angeles attorney and a former national leader of the Shrlners, today was sounding OHt sentiment in Sacra mento relative to his rumored can' didacv for United States senator. Youneworth has been in tne Day region for several days conferring with his friends.

On Friday eve ninir he was guest of honor at dinner given by Oakland friends at the Athens Athletic club. To these friends Youngwortn aa mltted a deep interest In next year's senatorial race. He had not made uo his mind definitely, ne wild, to become a candidate, but he left the Impression that he will be nmonir the starters. Friends of Youngworth In Los Angeles are circulating petitions uiL'lnK him to become a candidate. They hope to get 160,000 names.

Similar petitions are to ue circuiat ed in San Francisco and Oak' land. United States Senator Thomas 3 WalHh of Nevada, a delegate to the assembly in San Francisco of the Third Order of St. Francis, loaay was the speaker at a luncheon the Commonwealth club at the Pal ace hotel. His subject was the power question. Discussing power on his arrival last night, Senator Walsh said: "The real question is not public ownership nor private ownership The real question is how to get that necessity of modern life at fair price.

There are many cases in which the public is better served by public ownership, but there are other cases where pri vate corporations serve best. Walsh will meet with members of the Democratic Club, at luncheon at the Palnce hotel to morrow. Success of the referendum campaign against congressional and assembly reapportionment plans today whs In the balance as the checking up of numcs on th petitions for a popular vote pro ceeded. Possibility of failure was seen through insufficiency names. Approximately 70,000 ilg' natures are required.

County Clerk George Gross est! mates that about 30,000 of the 4U 000 names filed here will be certt fled to Secretary of State Frank In San Francisco the registrar of voters figures, that not more than 68 per cent of the names are those of registered voters, Referendum petitions with cer tlfied signatures must be in the hands of Jordan In Sacramento by Thursday midnight to prevent any act of the legislature from becom lng effective on the following day California's new tax fact-finding agency, the bureau of research to be operated in conjunction wltn the state board of equalization, will be a going concern bjtJneptember 1 according to plans under way at Sacramento. Within two wet-ks members of the board and Finance Dlrecto Holland A. Vandegrlft will select the head of the bureau. Subordi nates will be drafted from the per sonncl of existing department Vandegrlft announced. County auditors, assessors and tax collectors will be asked aid In the Investigation of the tax problem.

The new bureau la ex pected to make recommendations to future legislatures for revising the taxation system. Director of Agriculture Dudley Moulton left Sacramento last night to visit fruit terminals In Chi cago, New York and other eastern cities. He will attend the annual country life conference at Cornell university, and before his return will confer with federal officials in Washington on a closer tie-up be tween the work of state and fed eral agricultural agencies. Warden Thanked By Freed Prisoner SAN QUENTIN, Aug. 10.

George Robinson, 27, former OX' ford University student, broke red tape and precedent yesterday by pausing on his way to freedom for word of thanks to Warden James a. j-ioionan, The prison educational and voca tional system has made a new man of him and given him a new out look on life, he told Holohan. Robinson, received from San Mateo "county on April 30, 1828, was- paroled for deportation. took up the study of motion-picture' projection in prison, perfected himself In the and then taught prison classes. He also studied Spanish and French, sister in Brooklyn, and one to a friend.

Mrs. Williams' letter to McKen-zie said: "I am taking mother and the babies with me as I am all they have. I can not go on any longer. If I am wrong, let God be my judge." Mrs. Walz wrote one letter to Mrs.

H. Maruse of New Orleans which concluded: "Good-bye forever." She also wrote to Mrs. Blanche Weill, a sister, referring to personal property she had in storage in Brooklyn. "Sell them. They ought to be worth more than $1000," she wrote.

the letter to Mrs. Fish, Mrs. Williams wrote: "Have the baby and myself cremated and our ashes placed i an urn and taken to my mother's lot in Brooklyn. Mother wants to be placed in a casket and her body sent to the same place." Mrs. Williams Daughter of Rich Hotel Man NOnWALK, Aug.

10. OP) Mrs. Florine Williams was the former Florine Mahackemo Walz, a native of Norwalk. She was a daughter of the late Joseph Walz, who- for years conducted the Mahackemo hotel. About a score of years ago he retired from the hotel business, having amassed a considerable for tune, and the family went to Brooklyn to reside.

At that time the movies were" In their infancy and Earle Williams, one of the most popular screen stars, was leading player of the old Vitagraph studio in Brooklyn. It was there that the screen star met and married Walz' daughter. He died four years ago In Los Angeles. parently was on the way to clearing up her debts by the sale of other belongings when the sudden crisis arrived. According to the probation report made by Mrs.

Williams, much of her misfortune came through bad business advice given her by Harvey. At his urging, she revealed, she invested $132,000 In an oil company which yielded little or no return. Of this $35,000 was returned when the widow learned It was part of her husband's estate and could not be disposed of without court order. of creditors reduced the size of the estate another On top of all these troubles, piled on her husband's death, came the Infatuation with Harvey and the birth of the child. Harvey left for New York six days before the child was born.

When she located him he refused to go through with a previous agreement to divorce his wife and marry her. Returning heartbroken, Mrs. Williams tried to sell the furniture of the Williams residence, and obtained $3000 In advance from C. H. O'Connor, an auctioneer.

The sale was blocked through a previous obligation, and O'Connor filed the grand theft complaint. Mrs. Williams' assertions that she was innocent of Intention to defraud won her probation. At that time, the probation report shows, she still had an annual Income of $6000 from a trust fund left ner by her father. Sister Knew Nothing of Financial Troubles NEW YORK, Aug.

10. fUP Mrs. Blanche Weill, Brooklyn, sister of Mrs, Clarissa Walz, said today she had no Indication t.hnt Mrs. Williams was disheartened, nor that she was in finanrial difficulties. Mrs.

Weill said that though she corresponded frequently with her sister, she had not heard from her in six weeks. 30 Classes to be Attended by Teachers BERKELEY, Aug. 10. Children are not the only ones going back to classes today. More than 30 classes for bay region school teachers have been organized for the fall period by the University of California extension division.

"School teachers throughout the state are beginning to realize that education Is no longer being regarded as something terminated in a perso 'a early years, but rather as a process continuing throughout a large part of life," states Leon J. Richardson, director of the Extension division. "Furthermore, the average teacher is anxious to keep abreast of modern tendencies in teaching," he says. Member of Party Gets Knife Wounds G. T.

Potter, 35, 684 Twelfth street, is in the emergency hospital with two knife wounds in the chest, and lacerations on the side of the head, following a party last night. He was picked up in the street by a taxi driver, Al. Tremmall. 3887 Patterson street, who responded to a telephone call and took Potter to the hospital. Mrs.

A. B. Smith, landladf at Potter's rooms, said she' heard a struggle about midnight, but could not give police any further information. Potter refused to explain how lie was stabbed, or by whom. he past year has brought mc SAN FRANCISCO, Aug.

10 The downward path trod by Mrs. Florine Walz Williams from the position of wealth and high social standing she had held as a girl and as the wife of Earle Williams, noted actor who died In 1927, was describe today by her attorney, Harry McKenzie, as one beset with troubles running from an illicit love affair to Imprisonment 'for grand False friends encouraged the young widow to make unwise Investments which wiped out her $250,000 fortune, McKenzie related. To provide money for Wallace Harvey, Los Angeles oil promoter and, according to admission made by Mrs. Williams in court, the father of her sen, Billy, the wWow sold her palatial home In Hollywood. This brought about her arrest on the grand theft charge, for the house had previously been mortgaged.

GRANTED PRORATION. She s.pent some time in jail, awaiting trial. She pleaded guilty to the charge, and the kindly Los Angeles judge who heard her granted her five years' probation to save her from San Quentln, on her promise to make restitution. There were checks written on Insufficient funds, McKenzie revealed. These difficulties the frantic woman cleared up by the sale of clr thing and jewelry In which she once paraded as one of the fashion leaders of the movie colony.

In the Nob Hill apartment where, police found the tragic remains of Mrs. Williams and her family, there were evidences that throughout her struggle she had been aided financially by former friends In Hollywood. A telegram signed with the name of Joseph Schenck, motion picture producer, was found, reading: "Tell me where I can send the thousand." There were letters and telegrams Indicating that Constance Tal-madge, sister-in-law of Schenck, had been party to the attempt to free Mrs. Williams from the financial rack on which she found herself. SURROUNDED BY PICTURES Pictures on the walls of the death apartment Indicated that Mrs.

Williams had sought to have her husband and her friends "close to her" at the last moment There were scores of pictures of Williams, In all his favorite roles. And1 here nd there were photographs of motion picture and stage Vavorlfes she had known. Relics of the luxury that once sfii rounded the family were still to be seen in the rooms gold toilet articles, valuable lace, expensive bric-a-brac that not yet found its way to the pawn, shop. Friends said they had been told by the aged mother, Mrs. Clarlsse Walz, that she had been Invited to waiz, tnai sne na CAREER RERE Earle Williams Once Trib une Photographer; Played 'Bits' at Palace Earle Williams, the late motion picture actor whose widow killed her two children and her aged mother and then took her own life yesterday, began his long and varied career in Oakland.

He was horn In Sacramento In S83, son nf Mr. and Mrs. Augustus V. Williams, California pioneers. Dramatic talent was his by natural heritage, his mother hav-iryt been a niece of James Paget, notable Thespian of a generation ago.

The family miJved to Oakland when Earle was six years old, and the future actor gainei his education at the Prescott elerrientary school and the Polytechnio College of California. As a youth he became interested In photography, and his first job was an a cameraman for The Oakland TRIBUNE. Later he worked in the Clark Brothers' bicycle shop, snd took up bicycling as a sport. He once won the state championship for the five-mile bicycle race. PLAYED BITS AT PALACE Williams next turned to the stage, obtaining "bits" In plays at the old Palace theater on Washington street and at the old Dietz opera house at Twelfth and Webster streets.

His active profeselonal career ss an actor began with a Now Orleans stock company In 1901. Later he played in stock at the Alcazaar theater, San Francisco followed by several seasons nf touring the United States and Canada. Williams entered motion pictures In 1912, Joining the old Vitagraph company, with which he remained for 12 years. While playing leading roles at the old Vitagraph studio In Brooklyn, New, York, he met Miss Florine Mahackmo Walz, daughter of the late Joseph Walz, wealthy proprietor' of the Mahackmo Hotel, Norwalk, Conn. They were married In 1918.

Wflllams leaped to nation-wide fame through his portrayal of the character of John Storm In a pic-turlzatlon of Hall Calne'a dramatic novel, "The Christian." After it became evident that the picture was a tremendous success, the actor and his brother Don Williams, who still resides In Oakland, purchased territorial rights to the film and exhibited It extensively. Williams died of double pneumonia on April 25, 1927, having been 111 less than a week. Surviving him at the time of his death, besides his widow and brpther, were his daughter, Joan Constance: his mother, Mrs. Eva M. Williams, and numerous whom resided in Oakland.

Among cousins, uncles and aunts, many of these were Mrs, Elmer Hunter, 6031 Grove street: Wilfred Jcff-ress, 8650 Lyon street; Clifton A. Wood, 2943 Sixty-first avenue, end Melvln Jeffress, 41 The Plaza, all cousins; John Jeffress, Como apartments and J. Howard Paget, 3620 Market street, uncles; and Susie' Jeffress and Mrs. William Wood, 2943 81xty-f lrst avenue, aunts, My Dear, Dear Mrs. Fish: Please forgive mc for being a hiirilcti to you to the mil.

I cannot go on any longer, and ns tlio babies have only me, I feel I have to lake tlicni with mo. It may he a cowardly way out. Who knows? But may God forgive mo and be my judge. I am enclosing for you my pawn tickets. The actual value of the things is about $1500, and they are pawned for less than $200.

I am leaving everything I have, Including my clothes and all my personal belongings, also a chock mndc payable to yon for $170. Will you please take the money and realize what more you can on my things? And hnve the babies and myself cremated and our ashes put In one urn and have them shipped to my mother's plot, at Cypress HIM cemetery Jamaica avenue, Brooklyn, N. y. Mother wants not to he ere. muted, but wants her body shipped in a casket to the same place.

Yon and Mr. Fish arc the two finest people I have ever known, and May God bless you for the Kondcrful way you have Irented me and mine. I wouldn't trouble you, but I know I can go in peace and that I will reach my final resting place with my ha hies, and not have to go to the I'ottcr's field. My mother has a plot fur fourteen, and only my father Is there. The plot is under the name of Walz.

Keep the sables and fox. and the best coats and three good evening coats I have In the bag down there. My novelty Jewelry, my inukc-up box and Joan's miniatures, as well as the pawn tickets, for the balance of my indebtedness to you, dear. Use the money and advance whatever Is necessary for expenses, and sell my dresses, hats, underwear, blanket, bags, shoes and every, thing I had, and I can only pray that you will get enough to cover everything, I have three dresses at the up the street, and five other hats at Jcun's, the milliner's, who made them over for me. All of them arc very fine and can bo sold.

Please hare them put Joan's little lavender dress on her and a lavender ribbon on her hair. It, is hanging up In the closet In her room. I'm on Sonny's yellow rompers. They are in his drawer. I want just a black dress and please leave on my wedding ring.

Knowing you and loving yon both has been the only happiness than for me. nlso sent you the keys from the bureau drawer. 1 wish you would take all out of storage and put In one room or rent a store. Then send for the 'right people. You con get over $1000 for It for you and family.

May he a good deal more. There Is also a lot of linen ami a barrel of fine dishes. Please cell it so I can repay the only way for what you have done for me. I will be glad If you could help Fanny, Loe to all from us all. am sorry I cannot see you all.

I. 8. Enclosed, are the snapshots from better and happier days. Iloiie it will find you all better than It left me. Well, Unit is This letter was-unsigned.

Work to Start On Hetchy Pipe san francisco; Aug. io. Work on the 48.5 miles section of the San Joaquin valley aqueduct nf the J-fetch Hetchy system will he officially begun next Wednesday when Mayor Angelo Rossi and other officials of the city and construction company will lay the first piece of pipe, it was announced here The scone of the ceremony will bo near Tracy. More than 800 sections of pipe will' be required, all made in South San Francisco, and taken to the valley site. City En-glneer M.

M. 0'Shaughnessy believes that the entire San Joaquin project will bo completed In from four to six weeks ahead of schedule time. Trench digging Is progressing at the rate of 900 fpet per day, he reported. Foundations and abutments will be placed next month, and. the thirty-foot pipe lengths Final data on the emergency TeUa-lrvington pipe line, a portion of the line to Han Mateo county reservoirs, will be completed In time tdt oall for bids on the $1,850,000 Job by October, O'Shaughncssy said.

Fathe'rof Child fold To Work, Support It "You had better go out and get a job and earn soma money to support the- baby you admit Is your own." This was the advice given I(loyd Acklev, 23, when he appeared before Folloe Judge Kdward J.Tyrrcll today on charges of fallurs to provide for the child of Miss Lillian Scarbrough, 19, 1600 Sixty-ninth avenue, Ackley, the admitted father of Miss Scarhrough's six weeks' old son, Robert, asked for probation when be was arrested on a charge of non-support of tbe child. Judge Tyrrell continued the case a. month today, telling Ackley he would give a decision on his probation appeal on September 10r and believe mc, I am going with a heart full or gratitude and love and appreciation. May iod bless yon both, always. Kin-give mo.

(Signed) Florine Williams. P. 8.: l'lease notify my aunt, Mrs. Blanche Weill, 8044 Ocean avenue, Brooklyn, N. She will take care of things at the other end.

Dear Mr. McKcn.le( her attorney) has a $500 bond of mine which I asked him to send you. It Is worth nhout $60 if yon sell it now, and It will help pay expenses of the funeral. Again thanking you, and God bless you, (Signed)1 Florine Williams. Here Is Mrs.

Williams' letter to Harry McKenzie, her attorney: Horry Mclten.le: You have been goodness Itself to me and I can't go without saying how sincerely grateful I am to you, I am taking my mother and the babies, as I am all they have and I can't lenve them behind. I can't go on any longer and if I am wrong let God ho my judge. Plcnse send my to Mrs. Fish. I hafvo left a letter to her to take care of everything necessary, and that will help a bit.

Thank you for everything yon hnve done for mo and may God blows you always, FLORINE WILLIAMS. Mrs. Clarlsse Walz, the mother of Mrs. AVllliams, left two letters, scrawled with a pencil. The first was addressed to Mrs.

William Marcuse, 40 Fontainbleu drive, New Orleans. It read: Dear Friend I have never forgotten you all. How nice yon were for us all. I am very miserable; had a terrible fall, lulfl up for ten weeks. Trouble over trouble.

Goodbye from us all and again many, many thanks for all you have done for us. If I could only see you all once more. Excuse, can hardly write because my full was on the side Of all my trouble. Did not hear from you In a long time, Was happy when your nephew called. Tried to get him on (ho phone but never can reach him.

I con hardly hold pencil. Love to yon all from us ali. ricose think kindly. Goodbye, your friend, Clarlsse Walz. The second letter left by Mrs.

Walz was to Mrs. Blanche Weill, 3044 Ocean avenue, New York. It read: This letter is for yon and Fanny, I am sending you parcel povt a nice, black dress for you. There is another yon can give Cora. For May there are two little boxes, one for May and one for Elolse.

The larger one Is for It fa supposed to be lucky, Hope it will; be luckier lor you Tr14 ny a nurse, josep Josephine Barnotti, for id wages. 1 UlllViiU AS CLERK Mrs. Williams had been working as a clerk at the Paramount film exchange, McKenzie said, and ap-spend the remainder of her life with i wealthy relatives In New York, but preferred to remain with her daughter. McKenzie said he had acted fee as Mrs. Williams' attorney for the past several months.

He told how she sold practically all of her once exclusive wardrobe to settle out of court a suit brought.