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Marion Webb (1894-1931) was placed in an Brooklyn Orphan Asylum with her sister Lillie after her father died young. Her husband was previously married and his divorce from that woman was "set aside" by the court. He successfully divorced his first wife on the second attempt. Marion attempted to take her own life by jumping out a window on the 8th floor of a hotel. She successfully ended her life by inhaling illuminating gas on August 12, 1931 at age 37. It was the anniversary of her suicide attempt the previous year. (b. March 8, 1894; Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA - d. August 12, 1931; Bloomfield, Essex County, New Jersey, USA)

Marion Webb

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Successful suicide. "Bloomfield, New Jersey; August 12, 1931. Miss Marion Webb, thirty-eight, committed suicide by gas after leaving a farewell note telling her mother that she was tired of life."
Attempted suicide. "Mrs. Marion Webb Lewis, of Los Angeles, leaped from the eighth floor of an apartment hotel and was still alive tonight, although in a critical condition. Relatives with whom she had been visiting reported that she had had been despondent over her separation from her husband, Fred Lewis, whom she left recently in the western city. The leap broke both her legs and several ribs."
Attempted suicide. "Mrs. Marion Webb Lewis, 35, of Los Angeles, California, who jumped eight stories in a suicide attempt Monday was still alive Monday night and doctors conceded her a good chance for life. All her ribs and both legs were broken. Mrs. Lewis left a note in the home of her relatives, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Hayes, with whom she had been staying, explaining that she "must not be a burden to anyone." Police believed that the attempt was made in despondency over her recent separation from her husband, Fred Lewis, whom she left in Los Angeles."
Attempted suicide. "Mrs. Marion Webb Lewis, who jumped from an eighth floor window of a hotel in Chicago yesterday morning in an attempt to commit suicide, was married to Frederick T. Lewis in Reno on November 13, 1929, after Lewis secured a divorce from his first wife here. Chicago dispatches say she was thought to have been despondent over a separation from Lewis which occurred in Los Angeles recently. Lewis and Miss Webb, who were both formerly connected with the Lord & Taylor department store in New York, and were both well known here. Lewis secured a divorce from his first wife, Augusta C. Lewis, on grounds of cruelty on September 3, 1929, and later was married to Miss Webb. They went from here to San Francisco to reside and later went to Los Angeles."
Attempted suicide. "Mrs. Marion Webb Lewis, 35, of Los Angeles, was injured probably fatally today when she leaped from an eighth floor window of a Sheridan Road apartment hotel in an attempt to end her life."
Attempted suicide. "Chicago, Illinois; August 11, 1930. Mrs. Marion Webb Lewis, 35 of Los Angeles, who suffered fractures of both legs and several ribs when she jumped from the eighth floor of the Park-Edgewater apartment hotel on the northside early today, was still alive this afternoon, but in a critical condition. She was despondent over separation from her husband, Fred Lewis, whom she left in Los Angeles when she came here to visit distant relatives, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Hayes, at the hotel."
Attempted suicide. "Mrs. Marion Webb Lewis, 35, of Los Angeles was injured probably fatally today when she leaped from an eighth floor window of a Sheridan road apartment hotel in an attempt to end her life. She is thought to have been despondent over separation from her husband, Fred Lewis, whom she left in Los Angeles. Mrs. Lewis was staying with distant relatives Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Hayes. She apparently arose from bed at 4 a.m. and jumped to the sidewalk."
Lewis - Webb. Frederick T. Lewis, Reno, and Marian Webb, East Orange, New Jersey."
Final divorce for her husband, and his first wife. "Frederick T. Lewis, New York department store manager who obtained a divorce here some years ago from Augusta C. Lewis, which decree was set aside by the state supreme court because residence requirements had not been strictly observed, was granted another decree yesterday in the district court. There was no contest offered in yesterday's case, the decree going by default."
Second attempt at divorce, for her husband and his first wife. "Frederick T. Lewis vs. Augustus C. Lewis."
Her husband's divorce from first wife is set aside. "Former Mrs. Frederick T. Lewis Alleges She Had Divorce Set Aside. Mrs. Augusta C. Lewis of the Hotel Leonori, Madison Avenue and Sixty-third Street, sued in the Supreme Court yesterday to void the marriage of Frederick T. Lewis, who she asserts is still her husband, and Marion Webb, to whom Lewis was married in Connecticut in 1927, after obtaining a divorce decree which Mrs. Lewis asserts she had had set aside. Mrs. Lewis asks that the defendants be restrained from living together and that Marion Webb be enjoined from using the name Lewis, on the ground that Lewis's pretended divorce from the plaintiff "subjects her to ignominy and unpleasantness and to false suspicion that the defendant divorced the plaintiff because of infidelity." Justice Glennon ordered that the papers be served on Lewis by mail to the merchandising department of Hahne & Co., Newark. The affidavits of Mrs. Lewis and her attorney, Henry Woog, asserted that Lewis is now living in East Orange with Marion Webb and that he is remaining out of New York to avoid alimony in a suit for separation brought by the plaintiff."

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