Helen Carruthers(1892-1925)

Helen Carruthers was born in 1892 in San Antonio, Texas. She moved to Hollywood with her mother and was signed by Keystone Studios in 1913. Helen appeared in more than a dozen films with Charlies Chaplin including His Pre-Historic Past, The Property Man, and Laughing Gas. When Chaplin left Keystone for Essanay Studios he brought Helen with him. She also used the stage name Peggy Page. Helen made a few Westerns with Broncho Billy Anderson but by 1915 her film career was over. She went to Seattle, Washington to star in a vaudeville show. After the show closed to she went to Portland, Oregon and checked into the Multnomah hotel. On May 6, 1915 she attempted suicide by swallowing thirty Bichloride of Mercury tablets

In an interview she said "I was lonesome. I didn't have any sorrow or worries at all to cause me to try suicide. I am sorry now.". She quit show business and moved to New York City. Helen became a baroness in 1918 when she married Baron Zur Muehlen, a sugar merchant from Java. Tragically on July 7, 1925 she was killed when she fell from a seven story window in The Ritz Carlton Hotel. According to her friends she had opened a window because she was hot and then suddenly fell. The police ruled her death was an accident and concluded she may have fainted. Helen was only thirty-three years old. She was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York.