The Mysterious Suicide And Coincidence Of The Silk Clad Actress

On April 25, 1937 the beautiful 25 year old actress, Mrs. Helen Kim Mont, committed suicide. She was found unconscious, clad only in a slip, silk stockings, and shoes. A gas tube was in her mouth. She had only been married for one month, though newspaper reports say she and her husband had quarelled the night before.

Such things sadly happen but police, at the time, said there was a coincidence attached to her death – the actress had an unintentional audience for her grand finale.

By ‘chance’ a chain letter had been sent out inviting people to a cocktail party at the address where the actress lived – and for the same day as her suicide. Part of the letter read:

Around 100 recipients of the letters arrived at her Park Avenue apartment in New York, and it was this that led to the discovery that “the shapely brown-haired girl had died from stove gas.”

Helen Kim left a suicide note, scrawled in pencil on pink and blue stationery. A few details of the note were released:

So, the party and the suicide were a coincidence – but it seems that Helen Kim led a colourful life. For example The Daily News wrote of her

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