Women Fashions - 1910s
by Sad Hill - Bizarre Los Angeles Archive
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Women Fashions - 1910s
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Sad Hill - Bizarre Los Angeles Archive
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Photograph - Digital Image
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Wealthy New York socialite, Mrs. Frederick O. Beach, is flanked by two well-dressed women who look like twins. Mrs. Beach lived a peculiar life with a couple of scandals. Born into wealth, she married a sugar magnate named Charles H. Havemeyer and they had two children before Havemeyer committed suicide in 1898. Months after inheriting his fortune, she married a handsome prominent New Yorker named Frederick O. "Beauty" Beach. On February 26, 1912, Mrs. Beach was attacked by an assailant on the front lawn of her summer home in Aiken, South Carolina. Although her head was hit and her throat was slashed by a pocketknife, she survived. When filing the police report, she and her husband claimed that the attacker had been black. Newspapers and local authorities didn't believe their story and Mr. Beach was arrested and charged with assault. Mrs. Beach defended her husband's innocence in court and Mr. Beach was acquitted. He later died from a heart attack in his home in December 1918 and Mrs. Beach continued to play the socialite for the rest of her life.
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