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Typo in caption, Angel s/b Angle. Mrs. Helen M. Angle was on trial in March, 1915, for manslaughter in the death of her friend Waldo R. Ballou in Stamford, Connecticut in June, 1914. Helen was divorced from her husband of twelve years, Frank W. Angle. Her father was Leonard Blondell, a wealthy former Stamford Councilman who was retired from the coal and road contracting business Waldo Ballou was was a friend of her fathers, and a leading Republican politician and Stamford business man. Helen met Waldo in 1911 after his wife died. Waldo proposed to Helen several times, but she said he was too old. He was 69, she was 40. Mrs Angle took the stand in her own defense, and told her version of what happened on the night of June 23, 1914. More than 500 people were turned away from the packed courtroom. After a twelve day trial the jury deliberated for one hour and forty-five minutes before returning a verdict of not guilty, after three ballots. Judge William H. Williams presided. Eight months after the trial, Helen remarried her former husband, Frank Angle, a foreman at Union Metallic Cartridge Company in Stamford. It was said that during her trial Mr Angle's sympathies were aroused, and he was a frequent visitor in the court. [1] [2] [3]  

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Thanks for helping to connect the two photographs. It does, indeed, seem to be a detail. We can try to match up information in both versions when we next update the descriptions.

Ethel Helen Lindner Belmont (aka, "Ethel Lorraine"), who was involved in the Gates/Herrman marriage annulment situation (see Dorothy Gates Herrman, next photo). Mrs. Ethel L. Belmont was caring for Dorothy Gates Herrman (a minor) at her apartment in New York City during the scandal. Mrs. Belmont was herself a former showgirl, and in the midst of a separation from Raymond Belmont: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00A16F93D5F13738... query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10712FC3C5E13738... query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70D13F93A5813738... Her friend Dorothy, wearing the same fur?

pennylrichardsca: This does appear to be Ethel Helen (Lindner) Belmont , who was going through a separation from her husband Raymond Belmont. We will add more information when we update. The stole does seem to be the same one that Dorothy Gates Herrman is wearing.

Her husband: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Belmont_II The second wife of Raymond Belmont was Carolyne Hulbert, s. www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/29720144285/