1940-03-25 — Page 2

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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 25, 1940.

LAST RITE,

SHOT HIS LOVER

New York, March 11.

A MIDDLE-AGED bachelor who spent thousands of pounds on a beautiful brunette in a fortnight, read the fun- eral service before he murdered her. Then he killed him- self in a parked car near New York to-day.'

£1,000,000 FORTUNE, SPENT 1s. A WEEK!

A girl who has a fortune of £1,000,000 spent only a shilling a week during 1939. Her total an- nual expenditure was £2 108- and it was mostly spent on school books.

The "poor little rich gir!" is Gloria Vanderbilt, U.S. heiress. During the year her fortune in- creased from £1,017,148

£1,029,361.

to

NO-BABIES WIFE KILLED

The body of the murderer, Leonard Graber, who until recently was a woman-hater, was found with prayerbook on his knees.

The pages were opened

last rites for the dead..

a

at the

By his side lay the body of an ex- otic girl, Anna Cowalchich, who had so infatuated him that he had spent his life savings on her.

Detectives reconstructing the tra- gedy said that Graber had shot Anna while she slept with her head on his shoulder in their car in Lovers' Lane.

MADLY IN LOVE

Then he had shot himself.

An open prayer-book on Graber's knees showed that during the drama of their last moments he had read the funeral service.

Scribbled on a page of the prayer- book was this note: "Dear Anna,— Time has come when all good things must come to end."

Leonard Graber's

brother Lorentz told how this mild little woman-hater met Anna a fortnight ago and fell madly in love with her.

New York, March 11. She was a beautiful society wife who didn't want babies and planned to leave the naval officer husband shenard, who no longer loved.

He was a quiet, studious husband, who felt that by having babies their married life could be saved,

HIS WILD LIFE

"In his infatuation," he said, "Leo- all his life had shunned girls, sold his share in his business and realised on his life insurance po- licies to buy her gifts and give her a reckless round of gaiety.

"He bought her jewels, clothes and entered with her into a wild life expensive night clubs.

at

That, according to the police, ex-. plains the apparent murder of Mrs. Constance Standish, twenty-three, and suicide of her husband, Lisu». "I know that a few days ago Leo. tenant George Standish, in their | nard felt that' Anna's love for him apartment at Waikiki Beach, Hono- lutu.

Letters prove that Standish had reason to be jealous of his wife.

UNFINISHED LETTER

A letter from Mr. Standish's father read: "I never want, to see you again unless you come as a true, faithful wife of the most honourable living."

wasn't genuine..

"Deeply religious, he began to proach himself for his infatuation."

re-

It plete wash-out and a failure."

resolve to leave her told of her husband.

This resolve, says the police, result- maned in a violent quarrel, culminating

in the double shooting,

In the wife's room the police The sound of the shots was drown- of fire-crackers found an unfinished letter in hered by the cracking handwriting: "I know I'm a com- set off by Chinese.

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