SUICIDE PARTY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 84, 26 April 1937, Page 8

SUICIDE PARTY

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Guests Find Hostess Dead on Arrival INHALED GAS

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NEW YORK, April 25. While 400 prospective guests at a cocktaii party assembled in the lobby of •a Park Avenue apartment the hostess, Mrs. Helen Mont, aged 25, an exactrcss and the bride of a month of a wealthy iuterior decorator, committod suieide by inhaling gas. She sent a chain letter of invitat'ion to a seore of her friends instructing them to make two copies pf this letter and niail them to their friends. She promised the inyslery party would be the moat unusual in New York's history. Tne first arrivais ascended the lift and rang the bell, which was unanswered. They smelled gas and suminoned the superintcndent, who found Mr?. Mont on thp floof of the kitchen with a tube conneeted with the gas range in her mouth. Artificial rcspiration was unavailing. The husband locatcd ac ma onice said he and his wife quarrelled shortly before the time for the party. The guests in the lobby, many of whom were unacquainted with Mrs. Mont, were told the party was cancelled and left mostly n.naw^T* 0£ the tragedy.