How Does David James Smith Tell People That She's Been Ill?

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Holly Crippen died in Los Angeles after getting sick on her way to the U.S. Her friends asked where they could send a letter of sympathy, and were told that it wasn't necessary. They contacted the U.s. Embassy but couldn't find her name on any passenger lists. She was not cremated; there would be no wreath for her grave.

In February of 1910, members of the Music Hall Ladies Guild in London received a strange letter from their treasurer – a singer who went by the name Belle Elmore. It said that she suddenly had to travel to the United States, and that she was resigning from her position.

Several weeks later, at the Music Hall Ladies Guild fundraising ball, Belle's husband arrived with a date. And she was wearing Belle's brooch.

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