Margaret Lawrence

A promising career on the Broadway stage came to a tragic and violent end for the actress Margaret Lawrence. At the age of 39, the socially prominent performer was discovered in her Manhattan apartment, the victim of a fatal gunshot wound. Her life was taken by the actor Louis Bennison, who then turned the weapon on himself in a shocking murder-suicide.

Lawrence had risen through the ranks of the theater world, beginning her career in Chicago before making her mark in New York City. She g ...

MARGARET LAWRENCE SLAIN BY LOUIS BENNISON, ACTOR, WHO ENDS LIFE IN HER HOME; NOTED ACTRESS AND HER SLAYER. (Published 1929)

True Crime: Broadway star murdered in her sleep was final curtain ...