Husband of Blonde in "Love Remorse" Suicide Asks No Probe Be Made
BODY RELEASED IN ONTARIO AT WISH OF MATE.
Young Law Student Discloses Final Letter Did Not Tell Of New Infatuation (Special Staff Correspondence)
ONTARIO, Feb 11 - Arriving here today from San Francisco where he is a law student, Ralph Riddle, young husband of Mrs. Margaret Lindgren Riddle, expressed himself as satisfied with the theory that his 22-year-old blonde wife had committed suicide and declared that he desired no further inquiry.
Mrs. Riddle ended her life early Sunday morning in an Ontario hotel bedroom only a few minutes after she and Boyd Alan Taylor, 29, Los Angeles attorney, had registered at the hostelry as man and wife.
LETTER HINTS AFFECTION
Using a revolver belonging to Taylor, the young woman shot herself through the heart while her companion was in the bathtub.
A letter, which Mrs. Riddle had written to her husband Saturday, only a few hours before her tragic death, was displayed by Riddle here today, but is said to have offered no hint whatever of the writer's impending suicide. It does, however, give strong evidence of Mrs. Riddle's affection for her husband.
It also was said to have borne out the theory that her desperate act was prompted by remorse over her relations with Taylor, with whom she apparently became infatuated, following her meeting with the attorney only a week earlier.
CORONER DROPS PROBE
Coroner R. E. Williams late this afternoon released the young woman's body without ordering an inquest, in line of the young husband's wishes.
Riddle was accompanied to Ontario by Mrs. Riddle's brother, Harry Lindgren of Los Angeles. They told of tentative plans for funeral services tomorrow afternoon in Las Angeles.
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