Riddle Family - Ralph Riddle - page 4

CALIF., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27 1936

Wife's Suicide Causes Mate To End Life

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27 - Mrs. Margaret Riddle, over whose death in Ontario two weeks ago, Ralph L. Riddle, 24, Hastings College law student, who was her estranged husband, shot and killed himself here today.      
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Law Student Folows His Estranged Spouse in Death by 17 days.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27.- 


Despondency over the death of his estranged wife, who was found shot in an Ontario hotel February 10 today led Ralph L. Riddle, Hastings Law College student, to shoot himself in his apartment at 145 Goff street.
   This was learned by police when they were called to the scene of the suicide, to find Riddle lying on the floor of the       apartment, a bullet hole in his chest.
   Robert McNulty, Riddle's roommate, who first found the body, told officers that since Mrs. Riddle, who had been living in Los Angeles for some time, was found dead, that the law student had been morose and despondent.
    Mrs. Riddle, accoding to southern police, had registered at a hotel in Ontario with Boyd Allen Taylor, Los Angeles attorney, as Taylor's wife. 

TAYLOR FINDS BODY SLUMPED ON BED
   Taylor left the hotel room for a short time, and on his return he told police he found the woman's body slumped on the bed, a bullet hole in the head.
   Taylor, his relatives told police, was married, but had been separated from his wife for two years. The two were en route to Tijuana when the tragedy occurred.
   San Francisco police said Riddle's revolver was found on the floor, near his body.
THREE NOTES ARE FOUND IN ROOM
   Three notes, two of which were sealed and were not immediatly opened by officers, were found on a dresser. The third, addressed to McNulty, indicated young Riddle, who was 24 years of age, was despondent over the events which had robbed him of his wife, with whom he hoped to effect a reconciliation.
   The note, McNulty said, quoted one line of a poem of Bryant's: 
   "So live to pleasant dreams!"


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